J203, Media Writing

Profile examples

Shorter profiles

• A profile of police reporter Janelle Hartman This appeared in Flash, the journalism school publication
• Very short profiles From Syracuse University's alumni magazine. (Link no longer works--I'll find another source--Russial)

Medium-length profiles

The following were written by students:

• Profile of a symphony conductor
• Profile of a music student
• Profile of a "Hash House Harrier"
• Profile of Olympic Trials meet director

Longer profile

• "The Man Who Would Be King" By Ian McCluskey in Flux magazine
• (This is a PDF file.) Oregon Quarterly profile of Lorry Lokey This is a long profile, written chronologically.
• Profile of Don Bolles, Arizona Republic investigative reporter.This won first place in the national Hearst student journalism awards profile category in 2007

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