AA Journalism
LaGuardia Community College
Key Information
Campus location
Queens, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
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Introduction
The Journalism Option in Liberal Arts leads to an Associate of Arts (AA) degree and is administered by the English Department. The program prepares you for journalism and other media careers through teaching the fundamentals of the newsgathering process, from developing story ideas, conducting secondary research and in-person interviews, to writing and editing and publishing stories.
You will learn the ethics and responsibilities of journalists, and the process of interviewing sources and writing news in a variety of formats including print, online, and radio broadcast. Besides learning the format and techniques of writing hard news stories, you will be exposed to different kinds of journalism including features writing for newspapers, magazines, and online formats; plus you will explore using the personal voice in literary journalism in such genres as blog posts, personal essays, memoirs and autobiography. You will also gain an insight into the new media of digital journalism and become both a critical consumer and producer of news.