Students enrolled in Wartburg College CA395: Political Reporting, taught by Dr. Jeff Stein,

make up a reportorial team covering the 10 Republican and 8 Democratic candidates for president.

Click here for more information about the class.

Click here for more information about the "Engaging Students: First in the Nation" project.

Click here for information about the caucuses themselves, including their history and how they work.

Click here for photos of the students during a class field trip to Des Moines for an Iowa Newspaper Association seminar on political reporting, including a photo with legendary political reporter James Flansburg; the trip also included and a visit to KCCI-TV News Channel 8 and photos with KCCI's Eric Hanson (Wartburg '96).

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FINAL COURSE PROJECT: IN-DEPTH ISSUE ANALYSIS

As the final project in the course, each student was assigned one issue to examine in-depth. Those stories were combined into a final newspaper, radio program, and television program.

Click here to view the Iowa Caucus 2008 Voters Guide in streaming video form.

Click here to listen to the Iowa Caucus 2008 Voters Guide in MP3 form.

Click here to view the Iowa Caucus 2008 Voters Guide in print (PDF) form.

Each issue has its own web page, which you can click on to not only read the student's story, but also see each candidate's position on that issue.

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Click here to view information from a poll of students conducted by the Media Criticism course.

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Click on the candidate name below to go to information reported by the students in the course on a weekly basis: