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Boot Camp for Journalists

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Boot Camp for Journalists

DURATION/TIME
8 weeks
Mondays
June 12 - August 7
7-10 pm

LEVEL
Intermediate/advanced

LOCATION
New York (Soho)

PRICE
$499 ($475 for )
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Course Details

Let's face it: You didn't become a journalist to cover city council meetings for the Boondock Weekly. You became a journalist because you feel passionate about the trade; there are stories that need to be told and you know that you're the one to tell them.

Our signature class, Boot Camp for Journalists, is the perfect opportunity to restructure your career and start writing about the things that matter to you. This class has put hundreds of students across the country through a rigorous eight weeks, during which they complete seven salable articles, learn how to produce a perfect pitch letter, and learn how to start selling their work to their dream publications. Assignments usually include a profile, an exhibition review, a "Talk of the Town" style piece, a travel or service piece, an op-ed, a personal essay, and a business feature.

In this class, you can expect to learn:
  • How to write a pitch that an editor can't turn down
  • How to figure out which publications are best for your articles, which are the easiest to break into, and which sections are the most freelancer-friendly
  • How to write articles that will make an impression
  • How to edit yourself
  • How to manage tight deadlines and negotiate contracts
By the end of class, students can expect to have:
A complete portfolio of 7 publishable articles that will impress any magazine editor, the ability to work under tight deadlines, and an understanding of how to create the career you want.

Admission requirements:
Please submit a letter of interest (including a brief work history), and a writing sample (less than 2,000 words). This is a rigorous course that requires a significant amount of outside work (count on at least three hours of reporting and writing per week).

Instructor Bio

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Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is an author, essayist and journalist. She specializes in writing narrative pieces that focus on the confluence of science, technology, and culture; women's health; gender politics; and the media. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, US News and World Report, Esquire, O magazine, Outside, Wired, Salon, Self, Glamour, Vogue, Fitness, Lexus magazine, Business Week, Yoga Journal and Alternet.com, and her essay "The Multi-Tasking Man" appeared in What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future, edited by Rebecca Walker (Riverhead Books, 2004). She has also worked as a freelance book editor for Random House, Inc. and has been a senior editor at Folio magazine.
Rachel has a BA in English Literature from Kenyon College and an MA from The Graduate School of Journalism at The University of California at Berkeley. She was also an assistant editor to Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine. To see more of her work, visit http://www.lehmannhaupt.com.

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