Comparative Global News Sites

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Description

By the end of this course , students will be able to : 1.1 Understand relevant concepts of fact checking. 1.2 Learn comparative strategies between news websites such as exclusion , inclusion , and foregrounding , backgrounding , sourcing , idealized reader and representation . 1.3 Report, write and edit news for international news websites with different policies. 1.4 Adapt use various news agencies style books. 1.5 Learn major strategies used by the United States in the management domestic and international news .

Program

Media Department

Objectives

  • This course aims to compare between global news sites in handling news items. Discussion will focus on the different methods and techniques used by news making in handling a given news report by several international news institutions. An essential skill for reading news articles is to differentiate between a fact and an opinion. Essential subjects will be discussed as the Closely concept of news objectivity, bias and manipulation .

Textbook

Blake , J. S. (2019 ) . News in a digital age : Comparing the presentation of news information overtime and across media platforms . Santa Monica : rand Corporation . -AP stylebook , 56 edition . -Reuters handbook of Journalism .

Course Content

content serial Description
151 Chapter One -Introduction -The Changing Media Ecosystem
2 Chapter One • News Presentation in a Digital Age: Past Research -Limitations of Existing Work and Contributions of This Report
3 Chapter One -Objective of This Report -Outline of This Report
4 Chapter Two -Data and Methodology -Data Collection
5 Chapter Two -Preparing the Data for Analysis -Periodization and Comparisons -Analysis
6 Chapter three -Changes in Newspaper Reporting over Time -Results -Discussion
7 7th week exam
8 Chapter four -Differences in Television News -Results -Discussion
9 Chapter Five -Comparing Print and Online Journalism -Results -Discussion
10 Chapter Five • Summary and Conclusions -Print Journalism: Modest Shifts Toward More-Subjective Reporting
11 Chapter Six • Television News: Stronger Shifts to Subjectivity, Conversation, and Argument -Online Journalism: Toward a Subjective Kind of Advocacy
12 12th week project submission
13 Chapter Six -Implications for Truth Decay -Limitations -Next Steps: What Other Research Is Needed?
14 Chapter Six Round table : discussing broad topics that can be used to differentiate between global news websites
15 Revision

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