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The Stanford Daily invites you to our Intro to Journalism weekend workshops! In this first course, students will be given the opportunity to learn more about The Stanford Daily, the oldest independent news outlet serving our university community. This panel-style discussion will introduce students to different types of journalism, storytelling, and media creation. Following the completion of this panel-style course, students will continue their immersion into journalism with an activity facilitated by one of our section editors. Activity sections will be hosted immediately after the panel and students can register for these sections beforehand or join them on the day of. Whether it be data, creative nonfiction, opinions, sports, news, or multimedia, these activities will give students hands-on journalism experience and more focused instruction from our editors.

If putting pen to page isn’t for you but storytelling still is, register for our multimedia journalism workshop, where you’ll learn how to produce, film and edit news stories for television and social media. Create a mini broadcast segment right here using nothing more than your phone! Get acquainted with anchoring, filming and editing and be prepared to learn about the future of multimedia journalism. With no video/social media experience necessary, the only thing you do need is a love for stories and to promise you’ll laugh at our jokes.