On the Beat: Covering
the Courts, The Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media, in
collaboration with Criminal Justice Journalists, is pleased to announce
its online course for journalists entitled On the Beat: Covering
the Courts . This course, along with several others to help working
journalists, is available at the Poynter Institute’s “News
University” website.
Journalists on all beats, but especially the courts beat, must be
able to translate arcane legal rulings into clear language and connect
individual cases to the everyday lives of readers and viewers. In this
course you will learn about court beat coverage: understanding and explaining
legal jargon, developing sources, finding records and telling a story
with depth and accuracy while maintaining sensitivity to the people
involved.
Dealing with the
Media, Courts Today Magazine, March-April 2006, by Gary
Hengstler, Director of the Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media
Training Court Personnel
Overseas, Courts Today Magazine, May-June 2006, by Gary
Hengstler, Director of the Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media
Courting Better Relationships
Between Judges and Journalists, Syracuse Law Review, Syracuse University
College of Law , Volume 56, No. 3-- 2006, by Gary Hengstler, Director
of the Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media
