Questions for Journalism Study
Unit 1Define journalism
Ⅰ. What is journalism?
Ⅱ. What are the 5 W's of Journalism?
Ⅲ. What is the difference of understanding news between US and
Ⅳ. How to judge the importance of an occurrence?
Ⅴ. How to make the local people be interested in the news if it happened outside the local city?
Unit 2Normative theories of media
Ⅰ. Why is the media system different in different country?
Ⅱ. Can every citizen speak, write and publish freely on internet? Why?
Ⅲ. Who owns the media in your country?
Ⅳ.Why people say one cannot understand the news media without understanding social structure?
Ⅴ.Can you explain the main characteristics of each of four theories.
Ⅵ.According Social Responsibility, can you explain why it places more emphasis on the press's responsibility to society than on the press's freedom?
Ⅶ.What is the different between Libertarian theory and Social responsibility
Unit 3Education of journalism
Ⅰ. What is the difference between the journalism education of US and
Ⅱ. When did journalism education begin in US? How did it develop?
Ⅲ. When did communication discipline begin in US? How did it develop?
Ⅵ.What is the difference and similarities between the journalism education of US and
Unit 4Convergence journalism
Ⅰ. What does convergence mean?
Ⅱ. What is the technological difficulty of Convergence journalism?
Ⅲ. What is the journalistic difficulty of convergence journalism?
Ⅵ. Why did we have to operate convergence journalism?
Unit 5 Is Newspaper Important?
Ⅰ. Tell the the history of news process in US?
Ⅱ. Summarize the brief history of american newspapers.
Ⅲ. What is the nowadays status of US traditional newspapers?
Ⅵ. What is the nowadays status of your country’s traditional newspapers?
Unit 6The rise and fall of mass communications
Ⅰ. Summarize the brief history ofmass communication.
Ⅱ. How does the citizen journalism help the democracy?
Ⅲ. How do the people influence the society through new media?
Unit 7Newspapers: more than writing news
Ⅰ. Who, reporters or operators, is more important in a newspaper?
Ⅱ. What is the role of a publisher in a newspaper?
Ⅲ. What is the role of a newspaper business manager?
Ⅵ. How does an advertising manager operate its department?
Unit 8 Comparative Journalism:Similarities and differences
Ⅰ. What is thedifference between the west and
Ⅱ. What is thesimilarity between the west and
Ⅲ. What is objectivity in your understanding?
Unit 9Modern press: origin and political history
Ⅰ. Who do you know are interested in the study ofthe press and politics?
Ⅱ. What is the relationship of press and political history?
Ⅲ. How did the politics influence the press?
Unit 10Media Ethics and the Law
Ⅰ. Will you tell some rules of ethics?
Ⅱ. What is aLibel in news reporting?
Ⅲ. What is copyright?
Unit 11Audience study
Ⅰ.Which medium do you use every day? newspaper, magazine, TV, radio, internet, or cell phone?
Ⅱ.Why do you use this medium every day?
Ⅲ. Does this medium satisfy you?
Ⅳ.Why people as audiences cannot be separated from personal, social and cultural continuity?
Ⅴ.which Impetus is the most important for audience research in new media? Why?
Ⅵ.Does the Uses and Gratifications Theory was an extension of the Needs and Motivation Theory? Why?
Unit 12Communication effects
Ⅰ. What are the dominant effect theories in the history?
Ⅱ. What is the “Uses and Gratifications Model”?
Ⅲ. What is agenda-setting model?
Ⅳ.Why empirical research in communication was almost synonymous with the media effects paradigm for many years?
Ⅴ.Can you give some examples which can support the Magic Bullet Theory?
Ⅵ.Can you explain “opinion” and “public opinion”?
Ⅶ.According the knowledge gap theory, can we reduce the Gap in different people?
