The 21st Century News Leader

Catalog description

Course looks at evolution of news leadership from the latter half of 20th century-present, including decline of newspapers, rise of Internet, collapse of traditional news business model, emergence of attention economy, reinvention of factchecking, and revolutionary arrival of social media. Students will explore key questions regarding news leader's role in society today, limits of news leadership, continuing changes in technology that impact role of news leader, new knowledge news leaders need, and role government has had in transformation of news landscape and leadership. Exploration of how challenges affect news industry, society, those entering field of journalism. Prerequisite: Journalism & Media 371.