JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
19 Jun 2018
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PASS- Monday and Wednesday’s at 4:00-5:00, Dunton Tower 1006
Core Concerns
- What role has journalism played in the democratic project?
You can’t have a free society without free press
Others say the press does the opposite, the news media takes away freedom because e
government controls the press.
- To what extent are the forms or journalism we have inherited expressions of commercial
imperatives?
Journalism as a business- how it has shaped journalism
- How have the technologies of public address and social communication influenced the content
and import of journalism?
From the invention of print to technology/internet
What is Journalism?
- News, online, photos, interviews, videos, sports, magazines, cartoons, documentaries, Bill Nye
*Main thing is, it’s more than just news
Journalism is society’s chronicle of itself, a running record of its activities, a means by which a society
informs itself. It is an ongoing documentation of social affairs conducted in public, for the benefit of the
public. It is a means of harvesting information and sharing this information.
- Chronicles a society’s unfolding affairs (reporting)
- Makes accounts of events (publication)
- Offers explanations (interpretations)
- Provides a public forum for debate (democratic)
Who is excluded? – Digital, Debates
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Document Summary
Pass- monday and wednesday"s at 4:00-5:00, dunton tower 1006. You can"t have a free society without free press. Others say the press does the opposite, the news media takes away freedom because e government controls the press. Journalism as a business- how it has shaped journalism. News, online, photos, interviews, videos, sports, magazines, cartoons, documentaries, bill nye. *main thing is, it"s more than just news. Journalism is society"s chronicle of itself, a running record of its activities, a means by which a society informs itself. It is an ongoing documentation of social affairs conducted in public, for the benefit of the public. It is a means of harvesting information and sharing this information.
