Minority Fellows Learn Narrative Journalism at AAJ

september 3, 2003  02:41 pm
Minority Fellows Learn Narrative Journalism at AAJ
“I hadn’t done investigative reporting before and now I’m definitely interested in it,” Porochista Khakpour, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins master’s program in writing, tells Medill News. Khakpour and nine other students recently concluded the residential summer program at Medill’s Academy for Alternative Journalism, where they completed stories ranging from "what happens to the wrongfully convicted to tracking a female urban explorer to investigating a skydiving company with a high mortality rate."