1. Fatia Kasumu [email_address]

2. Interested in photography? Colin Kerrigan [email_address] or Walbert Young waldrake@gmail.com Interested in writing, designing, producing video or creating graphics? [email_address]

3. MURL Huh?

6. Plus your specific sequence courses.

7. During your senior year, you have to take MURL. Can’t graduate without it.

8. Check out the site: www.temple.edu/murl

11. The mission is to document and report on under-reported neighborhoods.

12. Every person, regardless of sequence participates.

14. Anyway. On to the Media Use Log .

15. Are you surprised by the amount of media in your life?

16. Was it hard to keep track of your media use?

17. What role does media play in your life?

18. Are you getting a broad range of influences?

20. Does journalism play a large role in your life? Please say, “Yes, George. It does.”

21. The What is News? assignment is due on 2/18.

24. Sometimes stories satisfy multiple criteria. Write 1 or two sentences explaining how the story satisfies the criteria.

25. Criteria?

36. Please type your responses on the worksheet. This is a 50 point assignment.

37. Due on February 18. Please don’t send me e-mails on 2/17 saying you don’t have a VCR or TV.

38. We’ll break down the criteria more in the coming weeks. And we’ll talk more about what a local news broadcast is (hint: no cable stations, and no Internet).

40. What is journalism for?

42. … and in 1791, James Madison wrote these words …

43. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - The First Amendment

44. Journalism is the only profession whose rights are addressed in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. Not doctors, lawyers or educators.

45. And yet there is no government certification required to practice journalism like there is in medicine or law.

46. Anyone can be a journalist. (now more than ever)

49. Is Citizen Media the ultimate in Democracy?

51. Or is it the path to the ultimate erosion of trust of the media?

53. With so many options to choose from, people are only going to outlets that feed their belief systems.

54. We are becoming “ fractured ” as a society. Demassification .

56. Technology?

57. Technology? The Internet. And cool new toys.

59. Who controls the flow of information?

61. In an era of globalization , how do you serve the public?

63. Reaching a larger audience means outlets can charge more for the space/ time.

65. So do you specialize or be massively general?

66. What is journalism for? The industry is evolving.