Everybody Has a Story: Storytelling Through Journalism
The most important news story is nothing if it isn't also a good yarn. Students will learn the basics of journalistic storytelling; the importance of compassion and empathy for their subjects, and how details - the little observations we take for granted, but that mean so much to a narrative - bring a subject to life and make the reader a part of the story.
Chris Dovi is an award-winning newspaper reporter who has covered Richmond's politics and people for more than a decade, always with an eye - and ear and nose - to making people a part of even the most yawn-inducing story about county budget debates. After all, behind every boring budget is a person whose life is changed for better or worse by bottom-line numbers. Dovi has been a staff reporter for The Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Daytona Beach News-Journal and Style Weekly, and has provided content to numerous other publications in Virginia, Florida and nationally, and is personally responsible for creating logjam traffic conditions for a full week on the otherwise untravelled Pocahontas Parkway by spinning a whale of a tale about Indian ghosts, mysterious toll booth apparitions and phantom drag racers.
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