| Syllabus
Pages
Spring, 2001
Projects Pages
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 | Who is a journalist? Matt Drudge?
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Oprah Winfrey?
| What are journalists for?
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| Can the crumbling "wall" between the business
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and
editorial side of news operations be rebuilt?
Should it be?
| Is "objectivity" possible?
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Globalization, the Internet, and new media scholarship
are creating
fundamental new questions about the
nature, purpose and direction of
journalism. This new
Topics in Journalism course will examine these
trends,
with the goal of helping current and future journalists
understand the practical impact that they might have
on their job
opportunities, work routines and their
approaches to ethical issues.
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AUTHOR OR
EDITOR
T.L. Glasser , James S.Ettema |
FULL TITLE
Custodians of Conscience: Investigative
Journalism and Public Virtue |
PUBLISHER
Columbia Univ Press |
| Rosen, Jay |
What are
Journalists For? |
Yale Univ
Press |
| Cook, Timothy |
Governing With The News: The News Media
as a Political Institution |
University of
Chicago Press
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| Barnhurst, Kevin |
Seeing the Newspaper |
Bedford Books |
| Mindich, David |
Just The Facts |
NYU Press |
| Neiman Reports |
The
Business of News: The News About Business |
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The major assignments for the class will be:
| a short (2-5 page) reaction essay on the readings and discussion,
due on the last class of each month: 60 percent
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| Message board contributions: 15 percent
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| A reporting project or paper that examines one of the issues
presented in the course in greater detail. The paper or project will
require at least one interview with a working journalist, as well as
one with a scholar: 25 percent. Due April 6.
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January theme: What is journalism? Who is a journalist?
What's the difference between Matt Drudge and James Webb?
Readings:
| CCJ Study, Changing
Definitions of News
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| Introduction and part one of Governing.
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| Introduction and first two chapters of Mindich
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| Introduction of Ettema
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February theme: What is the public interest? How is it best
served?
Readings:
March Theme: How does the structure of storytelling affect the
nature and "truth" of the stories we tell?
| Mindich, chapters 3 and 5
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| Barnhurst, -- particularly the first and last chapters
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| Johndan Johnson- Eilola: "Stories
and Maps"
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| Cook, "Governing by Publicity" --
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chapters 6 and 7
| Ettema and Glasser, chapters 2-6
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April Theme: What is objectivity?
| Mindich, conclusion
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| Ettema and Glasser, conclusion
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| Cook, conclusion
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| Resnick, "Ethical Problems and Dilemmas
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In The Interaction Between Science and Media" |