Jour478 International News Media

Study of news media systems and the influence of government, economics, culture and propaganda on international news practices. Examines the role of multinational media organizations. Restricted to juniors, seniors and graduate students.

Student Learning Objectives

Overall Learning Goal: Develop critical thinking, research and evaluation skills to analyze, critique and discuss international news media practices, formats and platforms across a range of topics and content producers from different countries.  Special attention to press freedoms worldwide, journalists' rights and protections, press censorship, attacks on the press, news media ownership, and relevant theories and concepts that explain the role of news and impact of news coverage on audiences, from local to global, in the changing technological and participatory digital society. 

Students will learn to:
  • Evaluate how press freedoms worldwide impact news reporting and access to information
  • Identify the ways emerging participatory digital media empower new forms of journalism and news producers who compete with professional journalists to tell global stories and engage audiences
  • Analyze the influence of political, economic, ideological, social and cultural lenses on traditional and nontraditional journalism practices and standards
  • Understand the problems and challenges in covering international news in the changing culture of journalism