For Kern

Exercise 3: New(s) Change

A brief situational statement:

The news is an important part of The Postmortal. We learn the news when John reads it online. In our real world, news media is changing, and it has changed rapidly in the last decade. For this exercise, you will choose one news medium (newspaper, television, radio, or internet) and you will research how it has changed in the last decade. You can, for the sake of time, choose just one news network to research. You can stay local (think Sundial), national, or international.

The steps of this exercise:

1.     Choose a news media in which you are interested.

2.     Choose a news network in which you are interested. This can be real news or soft news.

3.     Research the last decade using your main source. What are the changes that have occurred within this news source?

oIf it’s a print source, is it becoming obsolete?

oAre they moving toward online only?

oDo they have a social media page like Twitter?

oHave they created apps for smart phones?

4.     After your research, you will write a 1 page summary/reflection. The first half of the page should be a summary of your findings. The second half should be a reflection. What are your thoughts on these changes? Is it effective or not? What are they ways you think people prefer to get their news and why?

Details of this exercise:

1.     This assignment, as always, will be typed in MLA format.

2.     Double space and include a “Works Cited” page.

3.     You should have no less than 1 double-spaced page and no more than 2.