The Upstart

Feature Coverage students practice before writing in-depth stories

During the first class sessions of MIPA 2018, students began learning the basics of writing good feature stories and how to become good interviewers. Throughout the course, students will be […]

Feature Coverage class works on short profiles, longer stories

Kicking off camp with a new way to create personality profiles using Instagram, the students in the Feature Coverage class will soon venture into writing more in-depth stories. Instructor Julia […]

Conversations lead to personality profiles in Feature Coverage class

The Feature Coverage class was given an assignment to write a 300 word personality profile on another student in the class. Student Bianca Pugliesi chose to write about her classmate’s […]

Feature Coverage class looks forward to promising careers in new age journalism

  No, journalism isn’t dying. And young journalists- they have everything at their fingertips. Feature Coverage teacher Betsy Rau stands by this statement after she took over the class for […]

Feature Coverage students learn to be better storytellers

Today in Julia Satterthwaite’s class students are learning how to add an extra dimension to their writing by producing a personality profile on Jim Streisel, the MIPA Upstart instructor and […]

Feature Coverage students collaborate in a relaxed classroom setting

Reporting on feature pieces is all about digging around and finding strong sources that know how to tell a story. Students in Julia Satterthwaite’s “Feature Coverage” class are exploring this […]

Sparty Winner: Feature Coverage

Brianne Twiddy received the Sparty award in the Feature Coverage class for her feature coverage blog.