The Working Press

The Newspaper for the Concordia College Print Journalism Program  

            Advanced reporting class is the culmination of news writing and reporting courses in the print journalism program at Concordia College. Students are challenged to write about topics that combine social issues and public policy with the people who are affected by these issues.

            Sometimes the entire class takes on a project of related stories, as the 2001 class did when students explored the influx of refugees in Fargo-Moorhead: What problems have resulted? What benefits? How is the community responding? How, as a result of its growing cultural diversity, is the community changing?

            At other times, the students select independent projects, as the 2003 class did. Students delved into a diverse array of topics, including the police response to the region's methamphetamine epidemic, the plight of the working poor, and the high incidence of binge drinking among college students in Fargo-Moorhead.

            In all cases, each student must produce a portfolio of news stories totaling at least 20 manuscript pages. Their charge is to cover their subjects in-depth and to combine hard-news reporting and feature-writing techniques.

            The results are always instructive, and sometimes inspiring. Class portfolios have won awards in college newswriting competitions. Some students have had work produced for the class published in area newspapers.

            We invite you to read their work in this online newspaper, The Working Press.

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