{"id":7690,"date":"2025-07-22T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:20:34","slug":"diving-deeper-into-journalistic-specialties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/diving-deeper-into-journalistic-specialties\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving deeper into journalistic specialties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From \u201cCampus Sports Media\u201d led by Naismith Hall of Fame writer J.A. Adande to &#8220;Writing Reviews\u201d with former People editor Cynthia Wang, cherubs signed up for workshops to learn about a variety of mediums in journalism on a deeper level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nikhil Daniel from Windermere, Florida, attended the \u201cDocumentary Do\u2019s and Don\u2019t\u2019s\u201d and \u201cWriting Your Best for Broadcast\u201d workshops this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe dove into script writing,\u201d Daniel said. \u201cWe were on desk, and it was a really cool experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the workshops had only 15 students and met in small groups, a far cry from the 90-student lectures in the cavernous Fisk 217 auditorium. Margy Burgoon of Winnetka, Illinois, said she found the workshop classes to be more personalized than the daytime sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere were a lot fewer people, so I feel like [the workshops] were a little bit more intimate and it was less intimidating to ask questions,\u201d Burgoon said. \u201cIt was interesting to get to hear what they had to say from a really inside perspective.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perhaps some of the most unique perspectives came from guest instructors, including Bret Begun, a Bloomberg Businessweek editor, who offered \u201cProfile Writing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe gave a lot of personal stories about how he interviewed a race car driver for the entire day and drove around with him,\u201d Burgoon said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Director Roger Boye said the workshops add diversity to the curriculum and allowed students to pick lectures they\u2019re interested in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kai Shah of Burlingame, California, dove deep into the \u201cCampus Sports Media\u201d workshop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shah said, \u201cYou want to learn from the greats.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshops help students dig into new journalism topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":8290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[437],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":437,"user_id":258,"is_guest":0,"slug":"davidsinger","display_name":"David Singer","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8d479faf6e70439fbd7c3a372791aaef236620cbcd0f6f49c66e47c865635f24?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Singer","first_name":"David","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}