JRNL 023 - Great American JournalistsSemester Hours: 3 s.h.
Spring
By examining the lives and works of a diverse group of influential American journalists, students will gain a deeper appreciation of the journalistic legacy in which today’s reporters operate. Through readings, TV and radio broadcasts, documentaries and biopics, students will explore how each journalist’s work intersected with contemporary political and social issues and impacted the profession itself. Journalists studied will be drawn from different eras and media, including Ida Wells, Frederick Douglass, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Nelly Bly, Dorothea Lange, Ernie Pyle, Edward R. Murrow, John Hersey, Gloria Steinem, Tom Wolfe, Walter Cronkite, Woodward and Berstein and Manuel de Dios Unane. Students will do archival research through the Axinn Library, the Newseum’s online resources, and the International Center for Photography.
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(Formerly JRNL 180X, Great American Journalists)
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