he New School Free Press is a class devoted to producing news and information about The New School on multiple platforms: through a website (https://www.newschoolfreepress.com/), on social media and in print. This course functionally operates as a newsroom dedicated to covering The New School community. The course gives students the chance to dig deep into issues that affect the community and its administration, as well as general issues relevant to faculty, staff and student experiences. The class is highly collaborative and offers a chance for students to work together in many and various roles: reporting, editing, editorial design, communication design, photojournalism, editorial illustration, video and audio journalism, interactive graphics, web design and programming. Faculty will lead the class in an onboarding and level-setting process for the first few weeks of the term. Then, students will take on the roles of reporter, editor, designer, producer etc., so that by the end of the term, the news outlet is largely student-run. Students must have completed News, Narrative, & Design I or have the permission of the instructor. We encourage students with experience in photography, illustration, video, audio, print design and web design to join the New School Free Press — when asking the instructor for permission, please share your previous experience.Journalism+Design major. This course satisfies the Reporting and Craft Elective requirement for the Journalism+Design major.

This class is devoted to producing news and information about The New School on multiple platforms, including newschoolfreepress.com, social media, and printed newspaper. Students dig into issues that affect students, faculty, staff, administrators, and the larger community. This collaborative class, which operates like a newsroom, offers a chance for students to try out various roles: reporter, editor, designer, photojournalist, illustrator, audio, video, or data journalist, and so on. Faculty lead the class at the beginning, but by the end of the term, the news outlet is largely student-run. Students must have completed News, Narrative, & Design I or have the permission of the instructor. When asking the instructor for permission, please share your previous experience in photography, illustration, video, audio, print and web design, or other relevant areas. New School Free Press can be taken a second time without permission of the instructor. This course satisfies the Reporting and Craft Elective requirement for the Journalism+Design major.