JRNL3680 (Investigative Reporting) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Offers students an opportunity to learn and apply investigative reporting to assignments of the kind that editors and producers expect of their best reporters, especially those who cover demanding beats such as politics, government, healthcare, education, science, and business. Studies how to see and apply data and data visualization techniques, to develop and interview sources, to locate and decipher public records, to identify and conceptualize important stories, and to discuss and apply ethical theories to reporting to justify choices that may inflame or antagonize sources or readers. Requires students to do substantial enterprise stories for publication in major media outlets as part of the course.
Data updated October 2026.