Broadcasting The Broadcasting class is taught by an award-winning team from WMUR TV, including General Manager Jeff Bartlett, Reporter Andy Hershberger, Videographer Jim Breen and Assignment Editor Alisha McDevitt. While producing broadcast news stories of their own, students learn about where broadcast news fits in the ever-changing world of news reporting, the technical magic behind getting the news on the air and the nuts and bolts of covering stories and writing and editing copy. Add a dose of ethical issues and the First Amendment, and a student comes away with a well-rounded introduction to broadcast news.
Photojournalism
Taught by veteran news photographer Geoff Forester, this course helps students identify and use the elements of good news photography. Through hands-on activities and practical assignments, students learn the skills of telling a story through photographs and produce a photo essay. (Students must supply a digital SLR or 35 mm SLR camera).
Advanced Photojournalism
In the advanced photojournalism class, students learn that the photographer no longer merely takes a photo to accompany someone else's reporting. In addition to producing photos to enhance stories, photojournalists are called on more and more to live up to their title, producing photo packages and extended captions to tell stories of their own. While producing photo projects of their own, students will discuss trends in photojournalism, the technology of producing photographs, photo editing and how to handle sensitive situations professionally. They also will learn how the First Amendment protects their rights to shoot news photos and learn some of the realities of getting published. Columns/Blogging Everyday there is more and more outlet to express your own point of view through the written word. In this course Nashua Telegraph columnist Stacy Milbouer and Boston Globe Columnist Tom Long, will pass along some tips on writing the personal essay/columnist/blog. Just because it's in your head doesn't mean it will automatically come out that way on paper or on line. There's a method to expressing your opinions on anything from the next president to the best hot dog at the supermarket.
Editorial WritingThe editorial writing class is taught by Marty Karlon, the award-winning Sunday editor of The Telegraphy of Nashua. In this class, students will learn about the history of editorials and the fundamentals of effective editorial writing. While working on editorial projects as part of classroom editorial boards, students will choose important issues, research them and write editorials. They also will learn the difference between editorials, columns and blogs -- the growing rage on the Internet featuring anyone who has an opinion -- and a computer.
Writing and Reporting the News
The goal of this course it to get students started, or help them continue on path of telling a story accurately, quickly, understandably and objectively. Through our hands-on approach, veteran Concord Monitor reporter Meg Heckman helps students explore and practice the mechanics of story telling, from hatching an idea to planning and conducting interviews to putting it all on paper -- while on deadline!
Public Speaking and Professional Presentations
Effective communication is key to succeeding in today’s business environment. To be successful, individuals need to be able to deliver professional, confident and well-articulated presentations. Taught by Southern New Hampshire University Professor Andrea Bard, this workshop allows participants to develop important oral communication skills and knowledge through information and application. Each participant gives several presentations and receives constructive feedback regarding eye contact, nervous energy, organization, use of audiovisual aids and managing difficult questions
Sportswriting Sportswriting students at the Nackey S. Loeb School get to watch sports, then write about it. How good is that? The class includes basic writing instruction on how to put a story together, and tips on looking beyond the statistics to make game stories personal. And, because every sportswriter has an opinion, veteran New Hampshire Union Leader sportswriter and commentator Joe Sullivan helps students learn how to write thought-provoking columns of their own.
Editorial Cartooning
Editorial cartoonists look at the news differently than most people, then try to boil it down to images. This class offers students instruction on how to capture the essence of an issue or event in a single drawing, and how to produce a drawing that will convey a range of messages including humor, sarcasm, sympathy or understanding
First Amendment Law
None of the classes at the Nackey S. Loeb School would mean much without the First Amendment to protect Americans' right to free speech and free press. Attorney Gregory Sullivan, who has argued numerous First Amendment cases before the N.H. Supreme Court and teaches First Amendment law at Suffolk Law School, presents students an easy-to-understand course on the protections enjoyed by the media and how to stay within their guidelines. The course prompts lively debates on how far the media can, and should, go in reporting the news and how the law guides public officials as they conduct the public's business. Students will learn about past and recent court cases and discuss issues in the headlines.
Feature Writing Not all newswriting is about crime or politics. Feature writing can be about your neighbor, a clerk at the market or a businessperson who has come up with a new widget. Taught by Stacy Milbouer of the Nashua Telegraph and Tom Long of The Boston Globe, this course delves into story-telling, plain and simple. Students learn how using detail and good quotes brings their subjects alive.
Political Reporting Politics is in the lifeblood of New Hampshire, from Town Meeting to the Legislature to the First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary. Veteran Union Leader reporter and Statehouse Bureau Chief Tom Fahey has covered it all. In this course, he shows how to sort through the spin and rhetoric to write articles about how political issues and law making affect people. Learn how to question would-be presidents and how to look behind the scenes for clues about a candidate's chances or the likelihood of a proposal in the Legislature becoming law.
InDesign/PhotoshopThis 6-week course will cover the basics of using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Elements, especially as it relates to the printed product. While there are a lot of things that can be done with both of these products, and the two combined, we will focus on basic structure. What are all those hieroglyphics in the tools palettes and how do I find what I need in a hurry? We will discuss the logic behind the way the menus are laid out to help you find things more easily yourself and we will cover some basic photo and page layout options that you will need to create good pages for print.
What we will not cover: Keyboard shortcuts, specialized filters/transparency functions and some of the more advanced functionality that you might want to know after you have a better handle on what these programs can do. There are areas of these programs that allow you to do things that would be great for web and totally computerized production. For these options, we will talk only about why these may not be such good choices for the printed product. (small fee)
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