This is a hands-on reporting course open to graduate and undergraduate students in print, broadcast and online journalism. In fall semesters, it typically focuses on election coverage, with students reporting on local or national elections. In spring semesters, it typically focuses on political issues reporting and accountability reporting on elected officials. In presidential election cycles, Prof. Grimes continues a Newhouse School tradition of taking the political reporting class to New Hampshire for a week to cover the primary. Students in that special class report for news organizations who've agreed to publish or broadcast their work.
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PSC300: The Press & American Democracy
This is an undergraduate, cross-disciplinary course that Prof. Grimes co-teaches with Prof. Robert M. McClure, the Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy in the Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship. Profs. Grimes and McClure designed the course as a "cultural exchange" between students who want to be journalists covering politics and students who want to go into politics or public affairs. It focuses on the relationships among the press, political leaders and the public in our democracy. Its goal is to prepare students to distinguish the press from the media; to understand the work, roles and responsibilities of journalists and political leaders; and to consider the role of the public and citizenship in American democracy.
