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FACULTY PROFILE:
John Reed
John Reed teaches courses in writing and literature at The New School and Open Campus. He is the author of the novels A Still Small Voice and The Whole and the bestseller Snowball’s Chance; the play All the World’s A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare; the essay collection Tales of Woe; and the poetry collection Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems. He has received fellowships from Columbia University, where he earned his MFA in Creative Writing. His work has been published in Artnet, the Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, Paper Magazine, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Bomb magazine, Art in America, the PEN Poetry Series, the Los Angeles Times, the Believer, the Rumpus, the Daily Beast, Gawker, Slate, the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, Electric Literature, Vice, the New York Times, Harper’s, and other outlets and anthologized in Best American Essays, Devouring the Green, StoryScape Anthology Two, American Wasteland, and The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology. He is a two-term member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
Building the Sentence
Journalism and Feature Writing
Journalism Basics in the Digital Era Richard Huff 15 weeks
Writing a well-structured, accurate news or feature story that resonates in today’s multiplatform landscape is a critical skill for today’s journalists. Students interested in the craft of journalism are challenged to write clear, interesting stories suitable for a variety of media—including newspapers, websites, magazines and some forms of social media—on deadline. With plenty of encouragement, insider tips, and more, students learn how to develop news and feature story ideas, write reviews and columns, structure a story from start to finish, find sources, conduct interviews, and produce marketable pieces. $825 Counts toward a bachelor’s degree when taken for credit. See page 4 for details of per-unit credit tuition.
Arts and Entertainment Journalism Matthew Melucci
Noelle Kocot-Tomblin
15 sessions
5 sessions
This course teaches aspiring writers and journalists the art of composing music, theater, or movie reviews; features; news stories; and opinion pieces for print and online media. Whether your first love is attending live rock shows or catching the latest indie movie or Broadway play, this course takes you through the sometimes difficult process of gathering the facts and interviews necessary to piece together stories about artists and events to sell to entertainment magazines and other media sources. $825
Correct verb usage and syntax, or word order, are the focus of this short workshop. Exercises illustrate the correct use of the past and future tenses and the conditional as well as common mistakes in subject-verb agreement. Students practice these skills in short original pieces that are workshopped in class. $325 Counts toward a bachelor’s degree when taken for credit. See page 4 for details of per-unit credit tuition.
Style and Effectiveness Randi Ross
Counts toward a bachelor’s degree when taken for credit. See page 4 for details of per-unit credit tuition.
5 sessions
Noelle Kocot-Tomblin 5 weeks
This seminar addresses factors that contribute to prose style and effectiveness. Exemplary essays highlighting essential components are read and discussed, stylistic exercises provide practice, and responses in essay form to the assigned readings are workshopped. $325 Counts toward a bachelor’s degree when taken for credit. See page 4 for details of per-unit credit tuition.
Writing for NYC Newspapers, Magazines, and Webzines Susan Shapiro 15 sessions
The New York Times, the Daily News, Newsday, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, and the New Yorker all use freelance writers for profiles, features, reviews, news stories, humor, and