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Rosner, Hillary

Assistant Teaching Professor

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Research

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  • Hillary Rosner is an award-winning journalist specializing in science and environmental issues. She has reported on biodiversity, conservation, public lands, agriculture, water resources, energy, climate change and many other topics, from across the U.S. and around the world. Rosner frequently works to train scientists in how to communicate their research with the general public.

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  • Journalism, environmental journalism, science communication, climate change impacts, conservation, biodiversity

Teaching

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  • JRNL 4002 - Intermediate Reporting
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
    Builds on basic reporting, writing, and multimedia skills to produce text-story-centered packages on a variety of topics. Students develop beat reporting and enterprise skills, developing sources and progressive stories over the course of a semester.
  • JRNL 4311 - Literary Journalism
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Explores the telling of nonfiction stories through the techniques of fiction, through study of American literary journalists, from the New Journalism of the 1960s through current longform narrative multimedia. Students will read and analyze narrative nonfiction from several periods of American history in order to expand their own storytelling repertoire. The class will emphasize in-depth reporting for narrative, character and scene development, narrative arc and structure and the use of dialogue. They will also explore the particular ethical dilemmas faced by writers of creative nonfiction. Same as JRNL 5311.
  • JRNL 4802 - Feature Writing
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2024
    Provides practice in writing freelance articles. Considers types, sources, methods, titles, illustrations, and freelance markets. Students submit work for publication. Same as JRNL 5802.
  • JRNL 4822 - Environmental Journalism
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
    Explores environmental topics including climate change, energy, water, biodiversity, and food. To enrich their skills and approaches, students produce stories on a range of environmental topics and examine media coverage of the environment, discussing the complex issues involved in reporting these stories, and exploring the ways that environmental crises intersect with other stories in the news.
  • JRNL 4931 - Internship
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
    Internship
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