Media Analysis PaperThe Assignment1. Find 5 news articles (or transcripts) on an issue.Make sure the five articles gathered were published in at least two countries besides the U.S. Articles cannot be more than a year old they must have been published within the twelve months prior to completing the assignment.The articles should be news articles, written by journalists for publication in newspapers or on news websites (not other types of websites like blogs). They may also be transcripts of news stories that were broadcast on television or radio.Make sure the articles were each originally published or broadcast in at least three different countries. It will be easier to do the assignment if you do not choose the countries ahead of time, but instead do a search on the issue and then see which countries are represented in your search results. (Not every issue is regularly covered in newspapers in every country.)Note about locating the country of origin: The place of publication (the country of origin) of an article is generally where the news company that reported the story has its main headquarters. Do not rely on an articles dateline (the city indicated right at the beginning of a news article, often immediately before a date) to determine its country of origin: this is where the story was reported from, not where it was published. Most news agencies (i.e. wire services) are based on a particular country consider the country of origin to be where the service is headquartered. (The main exception to this is Inter-Press service (IPS), which is an international news agency. You can use an IPS article as one of your sources and list the country of origin as international.)Many articles from other countries are supplied to library databases from the BBC Monitoring Service, which does no reporting of its own but collects articles from around the world and translates them into English (if they are originally in another language.) For these articles, there will be an indication of which newspaper, website, radio station, etc., was the original source of the article, and in which country it is located. This would be the country of origin.2. Write a 5 page paper (not including title page and works cited page; Times New Roman, 12 pt., double spaced) that has three main parts:I. Overview of the issue;II. Summaries of the articles; andIII. Analysis/Questions.
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