Learning Objectives

1.

Introduce students to the history and development of the newspaper industry and the newspaper itself as a medium.

2.

Analyze how the organizational and economic nature of the contemporary newspaper industry shapes the content of newspapers.

3.

Detail the relationship between the newspaper as a medium and its readers.

4.

Examine changes in the newspaper industry brought about by emerging technologies and how those alterations may impact the medium's traditional role in our democracy.

5.

Improve students' newspaper-reading media literacy skills.

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