This course provides focused training for key skills for careers in journalism, media, and publishing in 2-3 week intensive units. Topics covered include editing fundamentals, fact-finding and research, op-ed writing, profiling, beat reporting, writing pitches, conducting interviews, journalistic ethics, freelance work, career preparedness, and more. Students will become versed in the concrete fundamentals of working as a journalist in 2020. They will be prepared to pursue a variety of writing and editing tracks in their future careers, and have the insight and feedback of working editor (Maya Binyam) and working journalist and author (Natasha Lennard) to help them identify strengths and weaknesses, better their practice, and focus in on areas of the field they’d like to develop beyond this course.