The Communicator's Dilemma: Covering Politics and Government with Speed and Depth in an Age of Twitter

This course examines trends in a media landscape transformed by technology over the last three decades, from the post-Watergate era to the early soundings of the 2016 presidential campaign. The course will lean hard on guest speakers to give it topicality, urgency ad a sense of personal connection. We will also dissect media in its many forms to see if the old standards of objectivity have given way to a new model that verges on advocacy.

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Taught by Michael Tackett