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Course Information

MCOM 2113 News Reporting

Description

Principles and practices in evaluating and writing news for print media, including interviewing techniques. Practical application in writing articles through reporting assignments and/or laboratory experience for print media.

Prerequisites

MCOM 2123
Six hours of English

Course Catalog Information

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Textbooks

Required

The Associated Press Stylebook, 55^th Edition, by The Associated Press
Call Number: Unavailable
ISBN: 9781541647572
Publication Date: June 23, 2020
Master the style guidelines of news writing, editing, and common usage with this indispensable guide perfect for students and professional writers everywhere.
Inside Reporting by Tim Harrower
Call Number: Unavailable
ISBN: 9780073526171
Publication Date: June 22, 2012
No other textbook offers a more engaging and accessible approach to newswriting than Inside Reporting. While emphasizing the basics, this new edition offers a wealth of information on digital reporting and packaging stories in modern, interactive ways.

When Words Collide by Lauren Kessler & Duncan McDonald
Call Number: Unavailable
ISBN: 9780495572404
Publication Date: January 1, 2011
This versatile grammar and usage handbook will work for you as a beginning student and as you continue as a media writer. It provides concise, clear explanations and examples as well as quick and accurate answers to grammar or usage questions.

This is for your information only. The campus library does not stock textbooks.

Best Bets

The following can help you start your research.

See the Recommended Resources tab for more extensive lists of suggested materials.

Databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.

CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
CMMC offers cover-to-cover (‘core’) indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected (‘priority’) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 450 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e., searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as ‘core’). In addition, CMMC features over 5,400 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched-for authors in the database.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles.

The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as Christian Science Monitor, Irish Times (Ireland), San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC), and others. All staff articles are also included from many newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, etc. In addition, Newspaper Source Plus features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts, including ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more.

Journals

American Journalism
Articles & book reviews on media history, including the history of broadcasting, advertising, public relations, & media outside of the United States, & communication of history in general.
Journalism Studies
Covers journalism as a global practice.

Books

Journalism by Stuart Allan (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780335214754
Publication Date: January 1, 2005
What are the key issues confronting journalism today, and why? What are the important debates regarding the forms and practices of reporting? How can the quality of news be improved? Journalism: Critical Issues explores essential themes in news and journalism studies. It brings together an exciting selection of original essays which engage with the most significant topics,debates and controversies in this fast-growing field.
Journalism by Tim P. Vos (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781501500084
Publication Date: May 22, 2018
This volume sets out the state-of-the-art in the discipline of journalism at a time in which the practice and profession of journalism is in serious flux. While journalism is still anchored to its history, change is infecting the field. The profession, and the scholars who study it, are reconceptualizing what journalism is in a time when journalists no longer monopolize the means for spreading the news.

Communication at Northwestern

These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.

School of Arts & Sciences
The departments within the school offer a total of fifteen majors and twenty minors at the undergraduate level and a master of arts in American studies at the graduate level.
Communication Department
The Communication Department is comprised of the Mass Communication and Speech Communication Programs.
Mass Communication
The Bachelor of Science Program in Mass Communication enables students to reach their full potential through guidance, instruction, and learning experiences in preparation for graduate studies or careers in communications and related fields.
Speech & Theatre
The Speech and Theatre Program strives to enable its members to achieve learning excellence and reach their full potential through guidance, instruction, and learning experiences in preparation for graduate studies and professional applications in speech- and theatre-related fields.