Hi everyone and welcome to the Class Blog for the 2014 Spring Semester of Investigative Journalism & The Web. Your class Syllabus and Day-to-Day schedule are both located on this page. Read them, follow them and follow this blog….
Happy to have you here!
Check out the Class Syllabus if you can before class. There are two books required, please try and purchase them as soon as possible:
REQUIRED:
* “Investigative Reporting,” by Marcy Burstiner.
* “The Art of Access,” by David Cuillier and Charles N. Davis.
If you’re not caught up on the NSA/Edward Snowden story (you should be!) — then take a look at the video on this piece.
Get ready to high the ground running!
See you next week,
Steve
Hi all —
Here’s a summary of our discussion yesterday (this is the starting point for a discussion that will continue in class.) Feel free to add to this list:
Facts:
* There’s been 37 rapes reported between Amherst college and UMass
* 46% actually reported (RAINN)
Ideas:
1. Security— has it improved? What’s different?
What do private schools do vs. public schools? Check back at library incident and see if changes occurred.
2. Processes that survivor and rapist go through. What happens to their family?
Do they withdraw from the university typically? Is the rapist expelled or in trouble with their school or maybe even their job?
3. Frat/jock culture— they aren’t associated with Umass so do the rapes need to be reported?
4. Police reports. What actually gets reported? Why? Obtain them.
5. Publishing the name?? most news outlets don’t. why not? Should we? What are the risks/ problems and concerns with doing that?
Benefits of publication?
6. What happens from college to both survivor and rapist? Are there more rapes in college vs. high school or in the work force?
7. Male rape victims. Find their stories. What’s different about the coverage? How many actually come forward. Why don’t they?
8. Talk to UMass administrators.
9. Violence/alcohol. How do both play a part in rapes?
Welcome to the 2013 Spring Edition of Investigative Journalism! Everything you need to know about this class can be found on this page.
It’s going to be a great semester so get ready, we’re going to hit the ground running. You’re going to work and stretch yourself in this class but I can guarantee you that at the end you will have a feeling unlike any other class you’ve had at UMass….
Steve
Hi all —
I’ve updated the Day-to-Day schedule on the class blog….it has the deadlines for your drafts, so check it out when you get a chance.
Steve
Hi everyone —
Please find Amy Chaunt or Rachel Roberts on Facebook and “friend” them so they can add you to the class Facebook page.
Thanks,
Steve
Please read “Murdoch, rivals alike face questions about coverage of hacking scandal” and weigh in with your thoughts on the Class Blog.
EXTRA CREDIT: Sept. 8 at 4 p.m.: “After the Towers Fell: A September 11th Retrospective” panel discussion at the Campus Center Reading Room. Please attend and file a 1-2 page summary (hard copy) of the discussion. 0-2 points available to your final grade.
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