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• CMC 220 Capstone Discussion Question

• CMC 220 Final Project

• Capstone Discussion Question
• Due Date Day 3 Main forum
• Post your response to the following What
  difficulties do you think news consumers
  encounter when they attempt to distinguish
  between objective news and editorial opinion?
  Consider such sources as blogging and advocacy
  Web sites and use specific examples of news
  information in your answer.

• Final Project News Content and Delivery
• Resource Appendix A
• Due Date Day 7 Individual forum
• Read or watch all of these news media on two
  separate days
• CBS
• NBC
• ABC
• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal

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• CMC 220 Week 1 CheckPoint Right to the Facts vs.
  Civic Journalism

• CMC 220 Week 1 DQs PART 1 OF 2

• CheckPoint Right to the Facts vs. Civic
  Journalism
• Resources Ch. 1 2 of Journalism Who, What,
  When, Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 5 post to the Individual forum
• Discuss, in 250 to 300 words, the distinction in
  a democratic society between the publics right
  to the facts and agenda-oriented civic journalism
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• Discussion Question 1
• Due Date Day 2 post to the Main forum
• Post your response to the following When what
  the public is interested in is not the same as
  what may be important information, what
  guidelines do you think a journalist should
  follow in reporting an issue?
• Consider responding to your classmates answers
  by speculating on the

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• CMC 220 Week 1 DQs PART 2 OF 2

• CMC 220 Week 2 Assignment

• Discussion Question 2
• Due Date Day 4 post to the Main forum
• Post your response to the following After
  accuracy, what do you believe are the most
  important standards for reporters to follow? Give
  specific examples of what to do and not do.
• Consider responding to your classmates answers
  by expanding on their suggestions.

• Assignment News Content and Delivery Changes
• Resources Ch. 4, 5, 6 of Journalism Who,
  What, When, Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 7 Individual forum
• Describe, in 750 to 1,050 words, how each new
  medium affected news content and delivery,
  including how people engaged with news and how
  the media that preceded it adapted their content
  and delivery

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• CMC 220 Week 2 CheckPoint

• CMC 220 Week 3 CheckPoint

• CheckPoint The Future of Print Media
• Resources Ch. 4 5 of Journalism Who, What,
  When, Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 4 Individual forum
• Explain, in 250 to 300 words, how you see the
  future of printed newspapers and magazines
  developing in the face of news availability on
  the radio, TV/cable and the Internet..

• CheckPoint Objective and Interpretive News
• Resources Ch. 9 10 of Journalism Who, What,
  When, Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 5 Individual forum
• Invent a news event and submit it in two styles
  fit for newspaper publication
• Objective narrative inverted pyramid (See p.
  172-174 of the text.)

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• CMC 220 Week 3 DQs PART 1 OF 2

• CMC 220 Week 3 DQs PART 2 OF 2

• Discussion Question 1
• Due Date Day 2 Main forum
• Post your response to the following Describe
  major characteristics that distinguish writing
  news items for print, broadcasting, and the
  Internet.
• Consider responding to your classmates by
  discussing which of these differences you think
  are rigid guidelines for a reporter and which may
  be applied more flexibly.

• Discussion Question 2
• Due Date Day 4 Main forum
• Post your response to the following To show the
  importance of accurately attributing information
  to sources, provide two or three examples of what
  can happen when news is not accurately
  attributed.
• Consider responding to your classmates answers
  by expanding upon the consequences of the
  examples they discuss
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• CMC 220 Week 4 Assignment

• CMC 220 Week 4 CheckPoint

• Assignment Editing an Article
• Resources Ch. 12 13 of Journalism Who, What,
  When, Where, Why and How and Appendix C
• Due Date Day 7 Individual forum
• Edit the article in Appendix C according to the
  guidelines listed.
• Write a 200- to 250-word summary of the steps you
  took in your editorial process and your reasons
  for each step.

• CheckPoint Influence of Editorial Work
• Resources Ch. 12 13 of Journalism Who, What,
  When, Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 4 Individual forum
• Describe, in 250 to 300 words, how an editors
  work can influence a readers perception of
  articles or the publication in which they appear.
  To help you with this activity,

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• CMC 220 Week 4 Exercise

• CMC 220 Week 5 DQs PART 1 of 2

• Exercise Collaborative Editing
• This exercise is designed to help you with the
  assignment later this week. You will collaborate
  in specific threads designated by your instructor
  to get information and ideas before you conduct
  your individual editing work.
• Resources Ch. 12 13 of Journalism Who, What,
  When, Where, Why and How and Appendix C
• Due Date Day 5 Main forum

• Discussion Question 1
• Due Date Day 2 Main forum
• Post your response to the following A photograph
  that is not touched up may be thought to
  objectively capture something that has
  occurredright or wrong, what happened, happened.
  Do you think a photograph alone is necessarily
  neutral, or does it personally connect the
  audience with the event and promote bias? Provide
  examples

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• CMC 220 Week 5 DQs PART 2 of 2

• CMC 220 Week 6 CheckPoint

• Discussion Question 2
• Due Date Day 4 Main forum
• Post your response to the following The Ch. 16
  section titled Ethics and Taste on pp. 296-297
  describes four examples of photographs that could
  be deemed sensational. Select one example and
  invent conditions under which you would set aside
  the usual standard to avoid sensationalism and
  argue in favor of using the photograph.

• CheckPoint News Web Design
• Resource Ch. 17 of Journalism Who, What, When,
  Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 4 Individual forum
• Envision yourself as the editor of a news Web
  site and describe in detail, using 200 to 250
  words, how you would design the page display so
  that it incorporates the following principles

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• CMC 220 Week 7 CheckPoint

• CMC 220 Week 7 DQs PART 1 of 2

• CheckPoint Broadcasting
• Resources Ch. 18 19 of Journalism Who, What,
  When, Where, Why and How and Appendixes G, H, I
• Due Date Day 5 Individual forum
• Review Appendix G about the closed circle of a
  broadcast.
• Use what you believe are the best ideas from both
  of this weeks discussion questions and convert
  the feature news story in Appendix

• Discussion Question 1
• Due Date Day 2 Main forum
• Post your response to the following What
  features have you noticed that you like and
  dislike in the narration of news? How do those
  features affect how you interpret the news you
  are hearing?

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• CMC 220 Week 7 DQs PART 2 of 2

• CMC 220 Week 8 Assignment

• Discussion Question 2
• Due Date Day 4 Main forum
• Read Appendix G about the closed circle of a
  broadcast.
• Post your response to the following Convert the
  following news item, which was prepared as a
  pyramid for print delivery, into a closed circle
  for broadcast delivery
• Jessica Albermal, who recently relocated to
  Phoenix from Anchorage,

• Assignment Effect of Technological Advances
• Resources Ch. 21, 22, 23 of Journalism Who,
  What, When, Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 7 Individual forum
• Write a 750- to 1,050-word essay that traces the
  effect of technological advances on journalism
  throughout the nineteenth and twentieth
  centuries, including

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• CMC 220 Week 8 CheckPoint

• CheckPoint Role of the Press
• Resources Ch. 21, 22, 23 of Journalism Who,
  What, When, Where, Why and How
• Due Date Day 4 Individual forum
• Watch or read one news medium from each category
  below
• CNN or Fox News Channel
• CBS, ABC, or NBC

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