NMC 301: Writing for the Media Professional

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The New York Times At 71, Physics Professor is a Web Star  

 

 

 

Course Instructor

Name:  Pam Cytrynbaum

Email:  pam.cytrynbaum@oregonstate.edu

Office hours:  By appointment 

Syllabus

Professor Cytrynbaum is the former director of the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project and associate director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She has taught journalism at Northwestern University and the University of Oregon and is an experienced newspaper reporter and freelance writer who has worked at a number of major newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, New Orleans Times Picayune and the Chicago Tribune, where she was a reporter for columnist Mike Royko.   Read more

 

Click here for a list of articles written by Professor Cytrynbaum. 

Glossary

 
Digital Television Glossary

Course Texts & Sources

Required: 

Carole Rich. Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method. 

 

  

The Associated Press Stylebook

 

 

  

 

Howard Owens: Journalism in the Digital Age

Telling the Story: The Convergence of Print, Broadcast and Online Media.

Recommended:

Christopher Scanlan. Reporting and Wrting: Basics for the 21st Century.  

 

 

 

Multimedia News Resources:

Poynter Institute: Poynter Online

Local, regional, national media 

Romenesko Media Blog
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Course Librarian
Daily Briefings: Project for Ethics in Journalism
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