news analysis

Description

2) Select a specific news issue or event that you think was reported in a way that was not primarily geared toward the public interest, where the public could have been informed better than it was.

3) Using databases such as Proquest and Nexis Uni from the library homepage available through the navigation bar of this class, find several news stories on the issue or event. You may also find print and broadcast stories through Google searches but use different search terms so you can be sure to find several relevant stories. If you include broadcast stories you will then later need to analyze the visual aspects as well as the narration.

4) Do an initial scan of the stories to gauge their relevance. Discard the ones that are too short or that do not really focus on the issue or event of interest. If you now have too few stories then do some more searching to collect relevant news stories. You should have at least 10-15 stories on the event or issue.

5) Decide on whether you want to focus on several stories each from one or two news outlets, or stories across several news outlets. Think about which research “design” will be most useful in terms of your research goal.

Now write the proposal. It should have these elements:

1) Tell me which news event or issue you chose and why you chose it.

2) Tell me how you searched for the news stories and why you conducted your search the way you did.

3) List the final list of news stories you plan to use for your analysis and why you think this is a good “set” of news stories to analyze.

4) Tell me which concepts from the section on news in Chapter 3 you’ll be using to find patterns in the news stories.