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Journalism Short Documentary offers intensive, hands-on training in multimedia newsgathering and production, building on skills learned in Digital Storytelling, Multimedia Photo Essay and Digital Journalism but with an emphasis on refining audio and longer video story forms. Students will learn to produce in-depth “mini-doc” stories focusing on newsworthy trends and issues from the news. Students also will analyze and critique professional multimedia pieces.