JCM 448 News Analysis
This course is designed to help you understand the issues pertinent to news, from its production, function, effects to external influences on news. We will look at what constitute news; who are the professionals producing news; who are the people consuming news; what factors affect production and consumption. We will also examine how news serves its audience and society and how news affects the social, economic and political processes. Finally we will examine how news can be manipulated and how news bias affects media credibility. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course.