AS 4882 - Radio Reporting

Credits: 4

Learn the ethics and practices of radio journalism. This course emphasizes news content and develops radio reporting skills in the field and on-air. We will review the business of news and news gathering, working with acquiring sound bites, actualities and natural sound, seasonal and specialized coverage, programming and management decisions, criteria and types of stories, and the roles of social media and the internet. Students will be using digital field reporting technologies to produce, and broadcast a live weekly news radio show on the college radio station, OWWR, Old Westbury Web Radio.

Prerequisites
AS 2802, AS 3800, or instructor permission

When Offered:
Occasionally.