This course helps students advance their reporting skills by covering a city neighborhood or a topical beat. Students branch out across the city and suburbs to cover courts, crime, education, local and state politics, and other essentials of community reporting. Students develop their own sources and story ideas with the goal of professional publication in the department-managed news service or another news site. The purpose is to hone reporting skills, develop sources, and build both competence and confidence. Students produce stories, photos, audio and video for the Web. Class is run like a newsroom, and students are encouraged to show enterprise. (Formerly JO310, cannot be taken for credit if JO310 has been taken.) *Pre-req: COM CO201 and COM JO200/250. Four credits, every semester.