Department of Journalism
News-Gazette reporting class
A small group of UI journalism students participated in an experimental course in Spring 2007, in which each of them was paired with a reporter from The News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill., resulting in front-page stories.
A new class offered a select number of news-editorial journalism students the chance to earn academic credit while working in a professional newsroom to produce major in-depth projects during the spring 2007 semester. Students were teamed up with journalists from The News-Gazette, and their projects were published at the end of the semester. Working with their mentors, the students were responsible for the bulk of the reporting and writing. The students also met in class weekly with Professor Rich Martin to discuss their progress and other issues connected with their assignments. A second News-Gazette class will be offered during the spring 2008 semester.
Following are the student names and links to PDFs of their published articles. (PDFs are copyrighted stories of the News-Gazette, included here with permission.):
- Christine Won — series on Latinos in C-U Schools
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalismpdfs/1wonA1.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalismpdfs/1wonA5.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/2wonA1.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/2wonA7.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/3wonA1.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/3wonA9.pdf - Troy Murray — story on Rural Schools
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/murrayA1.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/murrayA5.pdf - Sam Miller — story on College Costs
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/millerA1.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/millerA6.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/millerA7.pdf - Susan McKenna — story on Property Values
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/mckennaA1.pdf
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/journalism/pdfs/mckennaA6.pdf
Questions? Please contact Rich Martin, associate professor in the Department of Journalism, at richmart@illinois.edu.