schedule

SCHEDULE

Week 1

Jan. 5 Intro

*bring a news story to next class meeting

Jan. 7 What is Journalism and What Does it Do?

The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers

Schudson 1-63

Week 2

Jan 12 The Problem of News

Schudson 64-114

Jan 15 Economics and Culture of News

Schudson 117-166

Week 3

Jan 19 The People Formerly Known as the Audience: Rethinking the Public

Schudson 167-212

Jan 21 The People Formerly Known as the Audience: Rethinking the Public cont.

Jay Rosen’s The People Formerly Known as the Audience

Jay Rosen’s Top Ten Ideas of 04

Week 4

Jan 26 Gulf War Coverage: 1991 vs today

Orville Schell’s intro to Michael Massig’s Now They Tell Us

Jan 28 Field Trip to Panel on broadband stimulus cosponsored by the Open Media Foundation and Media and Democracy Coalition

Please explore their websites and read the Media and Democracy Coalition's Bill of Rights.

Feb 2 Multimedia news stories: Guest speaker photo journalist Josh Lawton

Feb 4 News Blogs: The A-list Bloggers and Pro-Am Partnerships

*Project prospectus due. Brief In-class presentations*

Jay Rosen’s Bloggers vs. Journalists is over (Alyssa & Josh)

Zack Exley’s Time to Get off the Bus (Alyssa & Josh)

Also check out:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-the-bus/

http://english.ohmynews.com/

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

http://www.associatedcontent.com/

http://digg.com/

http://slashdot.org/

Clay Shirky's Powerlaws and Weblogs (Alex and Kacey)

Check out:

http://www.boingboing.net/

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/

http://www.beppegrillo.it/english.php

http://www.federatedmedia.net/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.buzzmachine.com/

Week 6 Take home midterm

Feb 9 NO CLASS

Feb 11 NO CLASS

Week 7

Feb 16 New New Media Landscape

Beckett Intro and Chapter 1

Review of Beckett

Feb 18 New New Media landscape cont.

Beckett Chapter 2

Week 8

Feb 23 Networked Journalism and Politics: How Obama Won

Beckett Chapter 3

David Talbot, How Obama Really Did It! (posted to the blog)

Feb 25 Networked Journalism and the Political: The French Riots and Networked Global Media

Beckett Chapter 4

Week 9

Mar 2 The Future of News

Beckett Chapter 5

Russell, New Bust; New Boom

Mar 4 Open Media Foundation Visit

Week 10

Mar 9 Presentations