Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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JOUR 4922 - Seminar in Broadcast News
Discussion of issues and problems: operational, social, economic, legal, and ethical, faced by broadcast and electronic media journalists.
Requisites: (JOUR 231A and 233) or (231 and 233) or 2310 or 2311
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Be conversant with current commercial and academic news research and the role it plays in daily news decision making.
- Understand how ethical principles collide with financial pressures in daily news decision making.
- Understand market demographics and how to complete a demographic profile of a television market.
- Understand the current economic and regulatory environment for the media, including consolidation and convergence.
- Understand the importance of multicultural and multi-perspective diversity in news coverage.
- Understand the need for racial, ethnic, and life experience diversity in a television news staff.
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