Welcome!

Excited to meet each of you! To prepare for our first day of class on Tuesday 1/28, you’ll need to do three things:

1. In about 300 words, choose a news event and describe how it affected your life. Offer the basics — what happened and when, how did you first find out about it, how it made you feel and why it mattered. Put it in this google doc no later than Friday January 24 @ 11:59 PM. Also, bring a copy to class either on paper or in a digital form for self-editing.
2. Fill out this survey, again, no later than Friday 1/24. It should take less than 5 minutes.
3. Please read this story, “The Alienation of Jaime Cachua” which ran in the NYT in December. Come prepared to discuss it the first day of class.

This is a readable long-form feature that deals with relevant, urgent subject matter. In class, we will reflect on the story in terms of form, structure, reporting, writing style and visuals.