Writing Classes

Basic Journalism Class

The course teaches the basics of news, feature, caption and headline writing. The course also teaches how to layout a newspaper or book. Practical writing experiences will be given to prepare you for a starting job in journalism.

Experience

W.C. Madden taught basic journalism for three years as an instructor with the U.S. Air Force. He also taught with Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) for a year and with the PACE Group for three years. He has written thousands of articles in his lifetime of journalism. After a career in the Air Force, he worked for a half-dozen newspapers, including the Indianapolis News and Noblesville Daily Ledger. He retired from newspapers in 2025 and began writing about agriculture for Indiana AgVets.