Cultural Journalism

3 units

In the Internet Age, journalism has migrated from traditional, or legacy institutions (book publishers, film & television production companies, newspapers) to digital versions of the same thing, however the craft remains tied to its legacy models. The migration online has endangered certain ecologies of journalistic practice - in particular, arts journalism, especially criticism, the long form investigative essay, and foreign reporting. The first two of these three fit under what I describe as cultural journalism, and our purpose in this class is to practice what have been Cultural Journalism's forms, at the same time as we inquire into the modes and genres that are its future.