balanced coverage

You are a rookie news journalist, and you just completed your first major assignment covering a political campaign, including extensive research of websites to provide the political background of your story. Your best friend e-mails you and asks how it went.

 

Write a 350- to 700-word e-mail to your friend in which you detail the challenges you faced regarding the following:

• Your responsibility as a journalist to provide fair, honest, and balanced coverage.
• Your assessment of the credibility of political websites you visited for research, such as The Drudge Report, Daily Kos, or Colbert Nation.
• Your awareness of how political news reporting influences public opinion.You are a rookie news journalist, and you just completed your first major assignment covering a political campaign, including extensive research of websites to provide the political background of your story. Your best friend e-mails you and asks how it went.

   

  Write a 350- to 700-word e-mail to your friend in which you detail the challenges you faced regarding the following:

  • Your responsibility as a journalist to provide fair, honest, and balanced coverage.
  • Your assessment of the credibility of political websites you visited for research, such as The Drudge Report, Daily Kos, or Colbert Nation.
  • Your awareness of how political news reporting influences public opinion.