NMC 302: Reporting

Course Texts & Sources

Required: 

Carole Rich. Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method.  PN4781.R4

 

 

 

The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law  PN4783.A83 

 

 

Chris Rose, Dead in the Attic: After Katrina

 

 

 

 

Recommended:

Christopher Scanlan. Reporting and Wrting: Basics for the 21st Century PN4781 .S34

 

 
Telling the Story: The Convergence of Print, Broadcast and Online Media  P96.A86 T45

Multimedia News Resources:

Books and DVDs are on Reserve at the Circulation Desk in Valley Library. Ask for them by their call number.

Must Read!

 The New York TimesWith Regrets, New Orleans is Left Behind

Web Site Serves as Memorial and Warning

The New York TimesOn Facebook, Scholars Link up with Data 

Journalism.org  The Portrait from Iraq: How the Press has Covered Events on the Ground

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

 

 

 

Course Librarian

Hurricane Katrina

Post-Katrina New Orleans   A blog

 

 

 

Chris Rose, Dead in the Attic:After Katrina


Editors of Time, Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Changed America

 

Hurrican Katrina: CNN Reports: State of Emergency

 

NOVA-Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Drowned a City

 

Spike Lee, When the Levees Broke (dvd)

A Vision of Students Today

Daily Briefings: Project for Ethics in Journalism


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Course Bookmarks

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.