Due Dates: A Reminder

Week Twelve         Photojournalism. Showing those things we should not

11.6.2017           show. Turning away from those things that should be seen. Assignment: You will have read the assigned essays on library reserve or on Canvas. No reading response is due. Tentative term paper ideas are due Tuesday.

Week Thirteen    National Security vs. the public’s right to know.

11.13.2017         The patriotic press. Prior restraint. The Freedom of Information Act, the Patriot Act and the government control of information. Assignment: You will have read the assigned essays on Canvas, but no Reader Response on those readings is due. Lit review for term paper is due Thursday.        

Week Fourteen (Thanksgiving) Protecting sources. Advocacy journalism.

 11.20.2017        Assignment: You will have read the assigned essays on Canvas. No reading response is due. Tentative thesis statement and writing sample from term paper is due at class time next Tuesday.

Syllabus Update

Week Six            The philosophical underpinning of contemporary 9.25.2017            journalism ethics. Assignment: You will have read

                            Altschull, pages 145-217 and prepared a Reading

                            Response, which is due at class time Tuesday.

Week Seven       The philosophical underpinning of

10.2.2017            contemporary journalism ethics. Assignment: You will

                            have read Altschull, pages 221-260 and prepared a Reading

                            Response, which is due at class time Tuesday.

                  Discussion of second essay, which is due in two weeks.

Week Eight        Review/Midterm 

10.9.2017

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