Citizen Journalism Workshop

Name of facilitator: Mary Turck
Address: 2600 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55406
E-mail: editor@tcdailyplanet.net
Course description:
Journalism takes practice, and this introduction offers ways to get started writing and assignments that will put class lessons into practice. The four sessions will include:
1) a brief introduction to print and on-line journalism; identifying and surfacing story ideas and focusing stories; finding information and triangulating sources;
2) five Ws; basic story structures; hard and soft ledes; review of first story;
3) interviewing strategies; features, investigative reporting, enterprise stories; review of second story;
4) getting in print and on-line; op-ed, letter to the editor, blog post, community reporting; review of third story; plans for future.
We will use a class blog to publish and share stories generated during the class, and will explore other options for publishing participants' writing.
Class Time: 6:30-8:30 pm Wednesdays
Class Dates: Sept 17 - Oct 8
Place: Macalester College, Old Main Room 002 (WITH WI FI ACCESS AND PROJECTOR)
Class size: Minimum _____8__ Maximum ______16___
What experience do you bring to this class?
Editor, Twin Cities Daily Planet (www.tcdailyplanet.net); past editor, Connection to the Americas and AMERICAS.ORG; free-lance writer and editor, with dozens of articles and more than 15 books published over the past 20 years.