Writing the Big City (Reporting in New York)

Learn essential skills in order to produce insightful, ethical reporting — conduct interviews, create informative, entertaining content and discover the unseen amid millions of people in New York City.

New York is arguably the most fascinating city on the planet, a crowded, kinetic “world in a city” and indeed, virtually every type of person can be found in its boroughs.

This course will teach students how to capture the city’s rich fabric of people and events in words, pictures and sounds.

Participants will develop basic reporting skills: interviewing anyone anywhere, news judgment, writing compelling articles and pitching them to editors.

Students will also practice thinking like reporters, crafting and pitching ideas, ridding their writing of clutter, fact-checking their work and keenly observing the city.

This course is taught by a wide variety of experts who leverage their personal areas of journalistic and topical expertise – covering social, political and personal challenges of our time – resulting in a unique learning experience for this introductory journalism course.