Week 12
(Nov. 15)
• Read Folkerts: Ch. 13 “Ethics” and revisit the SPJ Code of Ethics and Journalistic Principles from the Week10 readings.
• Work on your Movie Project. If you haven’t sent Dr. Ted your selected movie with enough substantive reasoning for why you want to do that one for him to reply with comments/suggestions, (re)send that message. Everyone understanding what we’re doing? If not, ask. Remember: The question is what movie will you analyze and why?
• BTW, in the context of our conversations about convergence, new technology and the magazine business, check out this week's announced merger of the venerable Newsweek (which the Washington Post Co. recently sold for $1...) with the new online upstart aggregator The Daily Beast, under the editorship of feisty and a little whacko Tina Brown, founder of The Daily Beast (a reference to the day-to-day voraciousness of the news business) and formerly editor of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and others. URL Interesting.• Blogtalk: Weekly comment on the readings, the WORD, or events about the mass media or the press.
• Quiz
I think the Daily Beast and Newsweek combining is a bitter sweet thing. On the one had it's sad that print just isn't able to hold it's own anymore. On the other hand it's great that both businesses can reach different audiences and have new outlets to reach people. I hope with the economy getting a little better that print starts to get it's heart beat back, it would be a tragedy to have it lost for good.
ReplyDelete-- Chelsea Ebeling
Did anyone go and meet George Bush? My boss went there, that's crazy that he'd show up at a costco. I wonder what his book will be like?
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