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The Convergence Newsroom
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The
Convergence Newsroom is intended as the grand finale for undergraduate
journalism majors at Roosevelt University. Our goal is to produce a reporting
project that shows depth and sophistication in content; a project that
utimately is presented in multiple
formats (print, video, web and photographs); one that illustrates student
mastery of journalistic processes, from idea conception and development to
finished work. In this course, students continue the practice of telling journalistic
stories, relying on primary sources, in-person interviews and research. Students
immerse themselves in the selected topic, spending time in the field doing real
reporting, interviewing sources involved and affected by the issue we selected
each semester.
Although our
course project is a team project, each student completes individual assignments
along the way to the completion and presentation of the final team project. In
previous semesters, students have exploired homelessness in Chicago, homicide
and the impact of crime, drugs, poor education and other sociological ills on
African-American males. In addition to this website, other projects produced by
the Convergence Newsroom led by Professor John W. Fountain may be viewed by clicking
on any of the following links:
Http://www.soschicity.com
http://soschicity.com/SOSFlashSource/SavingOurSons.swf
Http://www.murderwasthecase.rujcp.com
http://soschicity.com/SOSFlashSource/SavingOurSons.swf
Http://www.murderwasthecase.rujcp.com
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The Convergence Newsroom
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