Fall 2025

Explores the role of journalism and social media in society - its influence on government, technology, business, national security, sports, science and entertainment.

Understanding key moments, debates and ideas that have shaped journalism in the United States from the Revolutionary War period through today. Examination of the social, cultural, political and technological aspects of journalism and its impact on the profession and public service.

Field experience in journalism, public relations, or related field.

Report, write and distribute in-depth stories for diverse audiences; enhance understanding of news judgment; develop and maintain sources; engage communities through field reporting.

Provides students with foundational skills to report, write and produce journalism content across multiple platforms, including broadcast, digital and text.

Introduction to television, radio, and/or digital news production. Examination of issues in journalism. Graded CR/NC.

Report, write, produce and distribute in-depth stories produced off beats on multiple platforms for diverse audiences; enhance understanding of news judgment; develop and maintain sources; engage communities through field reporting and emerging digital tools.

Introduction to basic web technologies; conceive, design, code and produce an advanced multimedia story package.

Video for digital platforms, principles of photography, design for web and mobile platforms. Introduction to principles of digital news design, interactivity and presentation in interactive storytelling.

Reportorial and analytical skills and techniques required for portraying and evaluating contemporary newsworthy events using basic data journalism techniques and tools for statistical analysis.

Build a personal website that features a culmination of your previous undergraduate journalism work; craft a professional digital profile using various social media platforms; understand the economics of the news business; prepare to enter the industry.

Emphasis on fundamental skills necessary for photojournalism including camera techniques, story ideas and digital darkroom.

Highlight norms, routines of content, including print, broadcast, video. Focus on opportunities, constraints posed by roles of reporters, fans, players, publicists, agents, leagues, teams.

Explores how to engage diverse local communities through participatory journalism and communication strategies. Focuses on using digital tools to increase engagement with communities via field reporting and mobile platforms to produce stories across platforms.

An inside look at the important stories, topical issues, trends and historical developments related to the growing influence of business and media on college and professional sports; identifying the key components and meeting the influencers in class that help shape the business side of sports, while recognizing the role the media plays in providing daily coverage across multiple platforms.

An examination of the symbiotic relationship of the entertainment business and the media; press coverage of the entertainment industry; Hollywood's relationship with news media.

Role of the broadcast journalism reporter; similarities and differences between print and electronic media; application of audio-video equipment; analysis and practical experience.

Production of television news and sports programs while developing video, writing and communication skills and managing content in collaboration with others under deadline pressure.

Interview, present and design sports segments for television/video in Studio A.

Presentation and selection in non-fiction television programs including documentaries, electronic magazines and news series; ethical problems, field research, reporting, interviewing, pre-production.

Create native journalistic content for current social media and emerging platforms with an emphasis on engaging content for Latinx audiences and underrepresented communities.

Concentrates on practical, hands-on skills for the production and distribution of a non-fiction podcast.

Production of a well-reported advanced multimedia package, with a blend of text, audio, video, photos, navigation and interactivity; final projects will be published by the Annenberg Media Center.

Production of public radio news: producing real-time newscasts for Annenberg Radio News. Newsgathering, assigning stories, anchoring, interviewing, working with reporters, editing and producing live programming.

Techniques of writing newspaper feature stories, including the profile, the light feature, the news feature, the in-depth story; the art of narrative writing.

Techniques of reporting and writing sports columns and commentary for print, video, radio and Web-based media.

News and feature coverage of sporting events, including social and economic factors influencing sports in America.

Examines how journalism shapes and reflects racial dynamics, equipping students to ethically cover race and justice issues with historical, theoretical and practical frameworks.

Techniques of reporting and writing about the entertainment business, economics and finances. Analysis of the skills and background needed for reporters specializing in this area of the news.

Empowers students to use podcasts, AI and immersive media to revisit and correct historical misrepresentations, producing empathetic, long-form journalism narratives.

Analyzes the ways media tell the story of our food and examines the critical issues surrounding what we eat.

Create news content and stories with an emphasis on Spanish language journalism for broadcast, streaming and other platforms.

Press law; government controls on the news media; legal responsibilities of the journalist.

Explores contemporary LBGTQ+ reporting. Revisit historical coverage of queer and trans issues, propose best practices for future reporting, and workshop pitches and news writing.

Practical approach to understanding and writing about economic concepts through current events, case studies and historical examples.

Critical examination of different styles of sports writing. Focus on the social context of sports writing and the relationship between sports and politics.

Learn how to cover action sports with cutting-edge technology. In-class lectures and industry guest speakers focus on topics such as gender, race and history.

Analysis of the images of the athlete and sports media helps us understand how sports dramatically affects such social issues as race, class and gender.

Develop the skills necessary to produce multiplatform coverage of mega-events like the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Brutal economics, labor-management tensions, DEI, lawsuit threats -- learn how news leaders juggle all this and more while inspiring their staff to produce great journalism.

Selected topics in journalism.

Beat reporting with a deep dive into research, source development, and writing/reporting skills. Focus on current trends, history, major actors and key issues.

Pre-production of video documentary including selection of topic, diversity, ethical and legal problems, research and reporting techniques, interviewing, writing, balanced presentation, visual and audio literacy.

Students write, report, produce, code, promote (through social media) and publish/air cross-platform stories in a converged news environment.

Report, write and distribute in-depth stories for diverse audiences; enhance understanding of news judgment; develop and maintain sources; engage communities through field reporting.

Focus on basic investigative reporting; understand its history, how to access records, identify sources, use computer assisted reporting, report in a fair and ethical manner.

Writing, reporting and producing content for video and digital platforms; similarities and differences between media; application of audio-visual and digital equipment.

Sketch, design and code a website from scratch, using HTML, CSS and jQuery plug-ins to tell a rich multimedia story. Open only to journalism majors.

Introduction to open-source investigations, including how to leverage publicly available sources of online information to uncover stories, verify claims and investigate complex issues.

Explores outstanding narrative journalism across wide range of platforms, subjects. Through readings, discussions, guest lecture "salons," students learn reporting, writing skills necessary for in-depth storytelling.

Food is a powerful lens for thinking about cities, community, climate, technology, culture - even our relationship to other species. Focus is on Los Angeles and California.

Field experience in journalism, public relations, or related field.

Develop the skills, critical thinking and expertise to report on the ongoing struggles over race, equality and justice in America.

Explore how Los Angeles culture evolved from Eurocentrism to a distinct Multiculturalism that reflects one of the most diverse cities in the world.

Research leading to the Master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Reporting and writing on the arts; strategies for arts journalism in the digital era; survey of essays and reviews by great critics.

Credit on acceptance of thesis.

Researching and writing about how not to get fooled as a journalist; includes research, writing and discussion. Open only to journalism and specialized journalism majors.