HU Heath & Medical Issues Affecting Medical Practitioners Presentation

Popular Culture, Politics and New Media

For this week’s assignment, you will be considering how news media coverage affects public perceptions of issues in the news.   You will be selecting a current event in the news and you will read three news articles related to the same event:  One from the United States and two from other countries that also reported on the same event. 

The presentation should include the following:

• Identification of the current event chosen along with identification of the three news articles.  
• Include the full APA citation for each article, including the date it was published and the country it was reported in, and a URL/web link to each source.
• Include screenshots of the first page of each article in your presentation.
• Compare the similarities and differences between the articles in the facts, perspectives of the reporter (tone, opinions shared, etc.).  Consider the way images were used in the article or whether you can detect the reporter’s bias/position in relation to the issue.
• Discuss your perceptions of the current event before and after reading the news articles.  Did your opinion or perception of the event/issue change after reading three articles about it?

In the presentation:

• Provide speaker’s notes or a voice over on the PowerPoint to accompany each slide.  

Submit:

• A presentation or Prezi that answers the questions posed above. Include speaker notes or a voice-over, images, and videos where applicable.