Description:
Information Gathering
The first tenant of ethical journalism is to seek the truth and report it. Information Gathering helps students gain the knowledge and skills to report ethically and reflectively. This class provides students with a grounding in various reporting strategies, techniques, and behaviors, such as database building and queries, interview development and execution, open records requests, community engagement and audience analytics, and more. Students will build informational resilience through assessing credibility, staying current, relationship-building, and audience understanding. Information Gathering emphasizes process-based thinking.
Field:
Communication, Journalism, Media Studies
Duration:
One semester
Downloadable curriculum and assessments are available through consulting services.
Patrick R. Johnson, Ph.D., MJE 