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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 […]

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 […]

Feature Coverage class profiles instructor

“I got third place…and I was really proud of that,” said Feature Coverage Instructor Julia Satterthwaite. “It was one of the biggest accomplishments for me, that by the end of […]

Group editorials: From Julia Satterthwaite’s Opinion Writing class

The little boy who delivers newspapers early in the morning may be seeing a decline in the subscriptions to the local paper, but that is no more journalistic than the […]

Individual editorial writing: From Julia Satterthwaite’s Opinion Writing class

In an age where things can go viral and become internet sensations virtually overnight, it’s easy for one picture to end up in the wrong hands. Once a photo is […]

Column writing: From Julia Satterthwaite’s Opinion Writing class

Dear freshmen, It’s been almost four years since I stepped foot in a middle school, so I’ll admit that my memories of it are hazy at best. However, I’m fairly […]

Students discuss page design in ‘Opinion Coverage’ class

On the last full day of the 2011 MIPA Summer Journalism Workshops, instructor Julia Satterthewaite taught her “Opinion Coverage” students about the importance of newspaper page design. She told them […]