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TR 2:55-4:10
5945
Instructor: Kelly King-O'Brien
Campus mail: Knight Institute, M101 McGraw Hall
Email: kk775@cornell.edu
Good investigative journalists write well and use their reportage to argue effectively. How can we adopt features of their writing for a variety of purposes and audiences, academic and popular? Our weekly readings will include features from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, slate.com, and the New York Times, among others. Students will write essays of opinion and argument--in such forms as news analysis, investigative writing, news digests, and op-ed pieces -- on topics such as environmental justice, the value of an elite education, human rights conflicts, the uses of technology, gender equality, and the ethics of journalism itself. Coursework will include an independently researched project on a subject of the student's choosing.