Important Instructions
• Try to find recent articles published in or after 2018. If you absolutely cannot, you may use one (out of three) research articles published earlier than 2018.
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q Question 1: Find, read and cite important insights and ideas from a news media report of more than 1,200 words (such as an in-depth news article, a feature story, industry report, a white paper or a media report) that covers your assigned topic. Choose carefully an item that is relevant to your assigned topic. Do NOT pick the first one you
find.
q Helpful hints: news media report should be more than 1,200 words. Period.
3. Find relevant reports here: Nieman Foundation, Digiday , among others publish an array of reports about media and journalism.
4. You may find long-form journalistic reports at longform.org/archive/tags or find relevant articles in The Guardian, The Economist, The New Yorker, Time, NYT Magazine, among others publishing long-form articles that examine your topic.
q List Top Five Important Takeaways from This Article:
List the five most important pieces of information or takeaway points, based on your reading of the article. Write a
minimum of 80 words to a maximum of 120 words for each takeaway point. .
uTakeaway 1: Remember to include an APA in-text citation and page number for each Important Information or Takeaway Point(s)]. See Pages 7-10 for examples of what we expect you to do.
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pMy overall comments about the value of this article:
q Question 2: Find, read and cite a peer-reviewed research article on your assigned topic. Choose an item that is relevant instead of picking the first one you find.
Peer-reviewed (also called refereed or scholarly) articles are written by experts and reviewed by other experts in the field before the article is published in a journal, in order to insure the article’s quality. Most academic journals require peer-reviewed articles.
q List Top Five Important Takeaways from This Article:
List the five most important pieces of information or takeaway points, from your reading. Write a minimum of 80 words to a maximum of 120 words for each takeaway point
uTakeaway 1: Remember to include an APA in-text citation and page number for each Important Information or Takeaway Point(s)].
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pMy overall comments about the value of this article:
q Question 3: You have a choice (as in, picking an article type) for this question. Find, read and cite a book or a book chapter or an article or report based on data-driven research on your assigned topic. Choose an item that is relevant instead of picking the first one you find. This time, though, list three important takeaways, not five.).
q List Top Three Important Takeaways from this Article/Report:
List the three most important pieces of information or takeaway points, from your reading. Write a minimum of 80 words to a maximum of 120 words for each takeaway point
