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CMC 220 Capstone Discussion Question
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.
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CMC 220 Final Project News Content and Delivery
Discuss, in 1,750 to 2,050 words, which media you
think best serve both the public interest and the
ethics of journalism, and why. Which of these
media would you choose for your own access to
news, and why?
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CMC 220 Week 1 CheckPoint Right to the Facts vs.
Civic Journalism
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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CMC 220 Week 1 DQs PART 1 OF 2
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?
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CMC 220 Week 1 DQs PART 2 OF 2
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.
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CMC 220 Week 2 Assignment News Content and
Delivery Changes
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. Be sure to discuss newspapers,
magazines, radio, TV, and satellite and Internet
services.
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CMC 220 Week 2 CheckPoint The Future of Print
Media
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. Consider
style of delivery as well as content.
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CMC 220 Week 3 CheckPoint Objective and
Interpretive News
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.) Interpretive non-narrative or feature
description (See p. 180-181 of the text.)
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CMC 220 Week 3 DQs PART 1 OF 2
Post your response to the following Describe
major characteristics that distinguish writing
news items for print, broadcasting, and the
Internet.
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CMC 220 Week 3 DQs PART 2 OF 2
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.
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CMC 220 Week 4 Assignment Editing an Article
Write a 200- to 250-word summary of the steps you
took in your editorial process and your reasons
for each step. Write a headline suitable for
publication and submit it as an attachment to
your summary with your edited version of the
article
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CMC 220 Week 4 CheckPoint Influence of Editorial
Work
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, consider also how
an article or publication may be perceived when
different editorial duties are not performed.
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CMC 220 Week 4 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.
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CMC 220 Week 5 DQs PART 1 of 2
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 to support your answer.
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CMC 220 Week 5 DQs PART 2 of 2
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.
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CMC 220 Week 6 CheckPoint News Web Design
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 Simplicity Consistency Purpose Variety

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CMC 220 Week 7 CheckPoint Broadcasting
Use what you believe are the best ideas from both
of this weeks discussion questions and convert
the feature news story in Appendix H to a 30- to
45-second news broadcast.
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CMC 220 Week 7 DQs PART 1 of 2
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? Consider responding to your
classmates by discussing how you react to the
things they like and dislike, and whether your
reaction is the same as theirs.
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CMC 220 Week 7 DQs PART 2 of 2
Albermal told authorities that she swerved to
avoid what looked like a grizzly bear, which
turned out to be the shadow of a prairie dog
statue from McPhersons Yard Ornaments cast
against a retaining wall in the Axys front yard.
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CMC 220 Week 8 Assignment Effect of
Technological Advances
Write a 750- to 1,050-word essay that traces the
effect of technological advances on journalism
throughout the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, including Making paper Typesetting
and presses Photography Telegraph Transportation
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CMC 220 Week 8 CheckPoint Role of the Press
Watch or read one news medium from each category
below CNN or Fox News Channel CBS, ABC, or NBC
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