WVII reports on journalism students’ election coverage
WVII (Channel 7) aired a story last month about a University of Maine journalism class and its efforts to cover the November election. Nearly 30 students in Joshua Roiland’s Introduction to Journalism course set up a newsroom and covered local, state and national election stories. Roiland is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and a preceptor in the Honors College. Roiland’s class published a 12-page broadsheet newspaper, The Maine Telegraph. Their articles, columns and editorials also went live on the UMaine Telegraph website and on the website of the Bangor Daily News.