Hillary Rosner is an award-winning journalist specializing in science and environmental issues. She has reported on biodiversity, conservation, public lands, agriculture, water resources, energy, climate change and many other topics, from across the U.S. and around the world. Rosner frequently works to train scientists in how to communicate their research with the general public.
JRNL 4002 - Intermediate Reporting
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Spring 2021
Builds on basic reporting, writing, and multimedia skills to produce text-story-centered packages on a variety of topics. Students develop beat reporting and enterprise skills, developing sources and progressive stories over the course of a semester.
JRNL 4311 - Literary Journalism
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Spring 2022
Explores the telling of nonfiction stories through the techniques of fiction, through study of American literary journalists, from the New Journalism of the 1960s through current longform narrative multimedia. Students will read and analyze narrative nonfiction from several periods of American history in order to expand their own storytelling repertoire. The class will emphasize in-depth reporting for narrative, character and scene development, narrative arc and structure and the use of dialogue. They will also explore the particular ethical dilemmas faced by writers of creative nonfiction. Same as JRNL 5311.
JRNL 4802 - Feature Writing
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2024
Provides practice in writing freelance articles. Considers types, sources, methods, titles, illustrations, and freelance markets. Students submit work for publication. Same as JRNL 5802.
JRNL 4822 - Environmental Journalism
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
Explores environmental topics including climate change, energy, water, biodiversity, and food. To enrich their skills and approaches, students produce stories on a range of environmental topics and examine media coverage of the environment, discussing the complex issues involved in reporting these stories, and exploring the ways that environmental crises intersect with other stories in the news.
JRNL 4931 - Internship
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Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
Internship
JRNL 5011 - Newsgathering and Multimedia Storytelling
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2024
Develops skills in research and reporting on public issues and news events, and in the construction of narrative in the journalistic and documentary traditions, using a variety of media platforms.
JRNL 5311 - Literary Journalism
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Spring 2022
Studies the contributions of American literary journalists from Sara Davidson, Joan Didion, Normal Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe; to established writers of nonfiction, including Annie Dillard, Jon Krakauer, Jane Kramer, Adrian Nichole LeBlanc and Terry Tempest Williams; to the newest wave of long-form journalists. Explores the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction and the literary techniques that distinguish creative nonfiction and literary journalism from other reportorial and storytelling forms. Formerly JRNL 6321. Same as JRNL 4311.
JRNL 5802 - Feature Writing
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2024
Provides practice in writing freelance articles. Considers types, sources, methods, titles, illustrations, and freelance markets. Students submit work for publication. Same as JRNL 4802.
JRNL 5812 - Science Writing
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
Helps students acquire the basic skills and knowledge required of science journalists. Also examines issues of scientific importance such as climate change, the nature of scientific knowledge, and how science is covered in various media.
JRNL 5822 - Reporting on the Environment
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
This class examines media coverage of environmental topics, and explores the ways that environmental crises intersect with other stories in the news. Students read contemporary environmental journalism, discuss the complex issues involved in reporting on the environment, and produce their own stories on topics including climate change, energy, water, biodiversity, and food. Same as JRNL 4822.
