1. Please respond to the following questions:
A) What variables about news-gathering are beyond the control of reporters and editors but nonetheless affect what people read, hear and see?
B) How are journalists captives of the personal values and biases they bring to their work? Provide an example of this through a video clip or story?
C) After reading "Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries: Blogging" provide a "large scale" example of when blogging became problematic and one when blogging actually helped solve a problem.
2. After studying the assigned reading 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook: Chapter 65: The Changing Nature of "News" considering the concepts of timeliness, proximity, unusualness, prominence, impact, conflict and human interest, provide a current example of a compelling news story. Answer the following questions or prompts:
A) Why is it compelling? Which of the concepts does it exemplify?
B) In general, how have these concepts been challenged by the advent of immediacy in news release? Make in text citations where necessary, and cite any outside sources that you use.
Submit your response in the file submission area for this assignment. If you choose to "add a file" by attaching a MSWord or PDF document, please also copy and paste your response into the comments area.