Book List (Assignment 3)

Assignment #5 Book List

• It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence by John Hockenberry
• Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
• True Story by Michael Finkel
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson
• The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
• February House by Sherill Tippins
• Salvador by Joan Didion
• The While Album by Joan Didion
• Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
• Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
• Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin
• Whiteout: Lost in Aspen by Ted Conover
• A Reporters Life by Walter Cronkite
• All the President’s Men by Woodward and Bernstein
• Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup by Susan Orlean
• Personal History by Katherine Graham
• The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of the Obituary by Marilyn Johnson
• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
• Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean
• This Cold Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
• The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in the Avalanche Zone by Mckay Jenkins
• The Trouble With Islam Today by Irshad Manji
• Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper by Laurel Leff
• Emma’s War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil–A True
• Story of Love and Death in Sudan by Deborah Scroggins
• The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
• Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate by Alicia Shepard
• Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
• Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen
• I is for Infidel… J is for Jihan, K is for Kalashnikov by Kathy Gannon
• A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
• A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton
• Richard M. Nixon by Elizabeth Drew
• Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin
• The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
• True Enough by Farhad Manjoo
• The Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler
• The Teapot Dome Scandal by Laton McCartney
• Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak
• Obit by Jim Sheeler
• Final Salute by Jim Sheeler
• Death of Innocence by Christopher Benson
• The Night of the Gun by David Carr
• Just Like Us by Helen Thorpe
• Enemies of the People by Kati Marton
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
• They Fought for Each Other by Kelly Kennedy
• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
• Poisoning of the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Washington’s
• Scandal Culture by Mark Feldstein
• Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis
• Demon Fish by Juliet Eilperin
• Emus Loose in Egnar by Judy Muller
• Fair Game by Valerie Plame
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
• The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
• Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism by Lucas Graves
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

More details will be coming shortly in regards to the grading of the assignment, but to get an idea of what we will be looking for, you should refer to the New York Times book reviews.

Assignment #1: Newspaper Review

Assignment #1: Newspaper Cover-to-Cover

For your first assignment, you will need to read a reputable daily newspaper cover-to-cover and then compare it to its digital counterpart. This compare/contrast will be done in two ways: first, look at the overall content of both the digital and physical copies, and then second, look at an individual news story.

That being said, not all newspapers count towards this assignment. The newspaper must cover categories such as both domestic and international news, entertainment, and sports, and have a website. THE BOULDER WEEKLY AND THE COLORADO DAILY ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT. However, some newspapers you can use include The Daily Camera, The Denver Post, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal just to name a few. You can find these newspapers at any gas station, coffee shop, or grocery store.

The assignment will need to be written in standard essay format (such as what we discussed in class), and it needs to be 500 words.

Here are some factors that you could consider discussing:

1. Compare the print coverage to the online coverage. What types of stories do they run on their front page and how do they compare to the stories that appear on their homepage online? What sections do they have? What kind of columns and opinion pieces do they focus on/what issues do they address (these appear on the Op/Ed pages and opinion sections of the website)? Do those pieces focus on international, national, regional or local issues?
2. What interactive or multimedia elements do they have on their website, how do they use photos (and videos online)? Are the stories the same length in print and online? Are the headlines the same?
3. Pick one story and summarize it briefly. How was the story told? How many people are in the story? Who is quoted, and do they use documents and, if so, what kind? Do you consider the story investigative? A feature? A personality profile? What did you find compelling about the story?
4. Have you read an entire newspaper before? What was the experience like? How did it compare to how you usually get your news?

In particular, for this assignment I will be grading five categories on a 0 to 5 scale, totaling five points (or five percent), with 0-1 being non-compliant, 2 being below expectations, 3 being Meets Expectations, 4 being Proficient, and 5 being excellent. The categories I will be grading on are:

1. Shows clear engagement with and reflection of the journalistic material.
2. Compares and Contrasts the coverage of a specific news story in a daily newspaper to one in an online newspaper source.
3. Compares and Contrasts the overall content of a daily newspaper to an online newspaper source.
4. Thesis statement and conclusion are clearly made and easy to understand.
5. Work is free of spelling and grammatical errors.

 

Assignment will be due to the D2L DROPBOX no later than 11:59 on February 10th, 2017. For every day the assignment is late, I will deduct 1 (one) point.  

 

 

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