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write two short half pages about a news article. Do not write more than half a page for each. For each document, pic a subject from the following list. full rubric in attachment.
2 half page assignments.
Description:
The overall purpose of this class is to promote media literacy and critical thinking about media. This
assignment will require you to apply the concepts we learn in class to the “real world” of news reporting in
the present day. You will be asked to choose two of the subjects we’re studying during the semester, find
a recent news report about each subject, and then turn in a link to each report along with a brief
explanation of how the report relates to the relevant subject.
Requirements:
To get points, you must submit a single Microsoft Word document for each news assignment via the
Submission folder in the “Extra Credit” module in iCollege.
1. For each document, pick one subject from the following list:
Media Concentration (the consolidation of ownership in various media sectors)
Journalism, specifically one or more of the following:
Newsworthiness
Journalistic ethics
Public Relations, specifically one or more of the following:
Pseudo-events
Astroturf lobbying
Free Expression, specifically one or more of the following:
Prior Restraint
Obscenity
Journalistic publication of classified information
Libel
Media Regulation, specifically one or more of the following:
Media antitrust issues
Media deregulation
Fake News
Media & Violence
Video Games & Violence
Media & Race
Media & Gender
2. Next, find a single news article from the last 6 months (published later than February, 2023)
that deals as directly as possible with that subject. This article must be from a newspaper or
another recognized news organization. Please err toward mainstream news from legitimate and
widely recognized publications/organizations. You will get more points for choosing articles from
sources that are not primarily ideological. So, for example, Fox News is a perfectly fine source, but
Breitbart is not. Similarly, MSNBC is a perfectly fine source, but AddictingInfo is not. Make sure your
source is not in Politifact’s Fake News Almanac (link:
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2017/apr/20/politifacts-guide-fake-news-websitesand-what-they/). You may choose articles from news magazines, but you may not choose articles
from academic journals. Books or book chapters are not acceptable. The primary mission of your
news source must be journalism, so it is not acceptable to use news from non-profit
organizations that are not primarily journalistic in nature.
3. Choose articles that are clearly about your subjects. This means that the article must not just
mention the subject but must be about that subject in general. So, an article that mentions one
media company buying several others does not count for the “media convergence” subject, but an
article that mentions such a transaction AND talks about the larger issue of media convergence would
be acceptable. An article that mentions gender discrimination in the video game industry would not
count, but an article that talks about the overall problem of gender discrimination would be okay. The
articles you choose may be general or specific, but at a minimum they must spend some time
talking directly about the subject you have chosen, not just whatever specific example the
article focuses on.
Good articles will have the following characteristics
• Recency: the more recent, the better
• Relevance: the article focuses primarily on the subject in question. It’s fine for the article to be
about something specific, as long as that specific thing directly involves the relevant media
subject. More points will be given to more interesting articles.
• Source Quality: the article is clearly from a reliable, respected news organization. Even if the
article was written by a single author, you will get more points if the article was published by a
larger organization that is well known for the quality of its journalism. So, if Journalist X posts an
article on her personal blog, that’s not as good as an article published by the New York Times by
Journalist X.
4. Now, create a Microsoft Word document for your assignment. Use 1-inch margins and a 12-point
font. At the top of the document, provide the following bibliographic information for the article you
chose:
• The full title of the article
• The author of the article (if available)
• The name of the publication
• The date of the article
• The URL where I can find the article (if possible). Let me be very clear here: I want a URL for the
actual page of the publication where the article can be found, NOT a link to the GALILEO database
where you might have found the article originally.
Next, write a half page, single-spaced explanation of what the article is about and how it
relates to your chosen subject. DO NOT JUST SUMMARIZE THE ARTICLE. Yes, I want you to
explain the article in your own words, but I also want you to explain how the article relates to what
we talked about in class. Do not write more than a half page, but do not write less than a third of a