journalism

Identifies the most controversial issues facing the media profession today, including the monopolistic control of the media by conglomerates, tabloid journalism, paparazzi, plagiarism, and Internet censorship.

The third grade of Parkside Elementary School finds out that it is hard work as well as fun to produce their own school newspaper.

During a camp-out promoting the opening of a donut shop in a small Minnesota town, sixteen-year-old Emma, an aspiring journalist, begins to connect an ongoing pollution investigation with the turmoil in the evangelical Christian church where her parents are pastors.

A high school student gets a summer internship at a women's magazine and a chance to write her own column, but is sidetracked by a new friendship with a glamorous fashion editor.

Eager to launch her career as a celebrity journalist, fifteen-year-old Susanna is excited at the prospect of being a summer intern at Scene magazine but soon discovers that her real job is to be a personal assistant, not a reporter, and that she must find her own way to prove her journalistic talents.

Betsy goes to Europe in 1913 to gather materials for her career as a writer. War breaks out in Europe and Betsy returns home.

Discusses the characteristics of investigative journalism as exemplified in the work of seven journalists : Selwyn Raab, Edward R. Murrow, I. F. Stone, Oriana Fallaci, Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and Gail Sheehy.