Training
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.
