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Journalism 2601: Week 3

Journalism 2601: Week 3. Journalism in the 21 st Century. What makes something “news”? . Where do we get our news? How has that evolved? When should we be skeptical?.

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Journalism 2601: Week 3

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  1. Journalism 2601: Week 3 Journalism in the 21st Century

  2. What makes something “news”? Where do we get our news? How has that evolved? When should we be skeptical?

  3. “The notion of a modern publisher’s advocating capitalism without democracy has no meaningful precedent in American journalism history.” (p. 28)

  4. “There is a growing list of examples of ownership subordinating journalism to commercial interests” (p. 28) Examples? Is journalism subordinate to commercial interests?

  5. Three key forces causing the shift away from citizen building: The nature of new technology Conglomeration: companies that own multiple news outlets Globalization: corporations lack borders, dispelling the notion of citizenship and traditional community

  6. Questions To what extent can citizens rely on this new subsidiary press inside global conglomerates to monitor the powerful interests in society? Can we rely on a few large companies to sponsor that monitoring—even when it is not their own corporate interests? Can journalism sustain the purpose that forged it in the three and a half centuries that came before?

  7. The primary purpose of journalism is to provide the citizens with the information they need to be self governing. (p. 12) –Kovach and Rosenthal

  8. The primary purpose of journalism is to hold power to account. (p. 24) –Hargreaves

  9. What, in the most optimistic sense, can new technology offer to journalists and the public? Allows journalist “to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation.”

  10. Discussion:What is the role of a journalist?What does the journalist owe to the public?What is the relationship between a journalist and the government?Why is truth necessary?

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