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from the issue of December 14, 2006
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Student depth reporting team headed to Berlin
BY MARILYN HAHN, JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS
Four days into the New Year, 13 students and four faculty members from the College of Journalism and Mass Communications will begin a 10-day trip to Berlin, Germany.
The group plans to develop an international depth report on German-American relations in a globalized world. The international depth reporting program at UNL allows students to explore topics of global impact, creating work for broad distribution.
Preparations for the trip began in the fall semester.
"We started by reading about German history," said Charlyne Berens, professor of news-editorial. "We also hosted guest speakers, including Wolfgang Drautz, German consul general in Chicago, and Susanna Schrafstetter, UNL associate professor of history specializing in German history. In addition, each of the students did individual research on narrowed topics."
The group of students includes seven from news-editorial, four from broadcasting and two from advertising.
Tim Anderson, news-editorial lecturer, said that while in Berlin, "students will be reporting out the stories that they came up with, interviewing German government and business officials and German citizens, as well as seeing the historic sights." -
The advertising students drafted a strategic communications platform for the promotion of the depth reporting project. Upon returning from Germany the students will spend the spring semester producing a 60-minute documentary and a news magazine.
"It's exciting to see students from all three majors working so closely together on one project in depth. This is what convergence of media is all about," said Frauke Hachtmann, assistant professor of advertising.
Past depth reporting projects have included the Student Academy Award winning documentary "Cuba: Illogical Temple;" Pulitzer Prize nominated "Cuba: An Elusive Truth," "U.S.A. and France: I Love You - Neither Do I," and Sri Lanka - "In the Wake of Catastrophe."
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