For this assignment, you will use a graphic organizer to monitor and analyze multiple global news outlets
across a period of time. Once you have completed your organizer, you will answer key questions about
the media’s coverage of a story and how this coverage changed and developed over time.

Choose media outlets that provide daily coverage. Monthly periodicals and journals are not a
good choice for this assignment, but many weekly news magazines also have websites that
provide more frequent reporting.

Use your graphic organizer to keep track of a news story as it unfolds across a period of time.
Choose a story that is likely to have continuous coverage. For example, a breaking news item will
probably have follow-up stories over the next week, while an in-depth profile of a writer or artist
will probably not be updated.

Consider how the story evolves depending on the handling of new events, information, and
perspectives in news articles. Consider how media outlets report the effects of the news story,
and note how the sources present opinions on the story in the form of editorials and op-ed pieces

In addition to the notes you take in your graphic organizer, keep track of the titles, authors, and
URLs of articles you read as the story develops.

FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS

1. Review your graphic organizer. What was the most important piece of information in the story,
and on which day was this information first reported? Which media outlet covered this
development first?
2. Review your graphic organizer. What were the similarities and differences in how the media
outlets reported the story? Which outlet provided the most information?
3. Which media outlet offered opinionated coverage in the form of editorials or op-eds? Were
different opinions presented across the media outlets? Did you detect bias in how the news was
reported?
4. How would you describe the development of this news story to someone who has not been
following it as closely as you? How would you summarize the most important factual information?
How would you convey the variety of opinions related to the news story?

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Industrialization in europe changed the way people lived. the urban working class came into being, and with it came the drudgery of work. which two parts of this excerpt from franz kafka's the metamorphosis most closely reflect this impact of industrialization on people's lives? "what's happened to me? " he thought. it wasn't a dream. his room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. a collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table—samsa was a travelling salesman—and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. it showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. "how about if i sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense," he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. however hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. he must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. "oh, no", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that i've chosen! travelling day in and day out. doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. they can all go away! " he felt a slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. he slid back into his former position. "getting up early all the time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. you've got to get enough sleep. other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. for instance, whenever i go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts. i ought to just try that with my boss; i'd get kicked out on the spot. but who knows, maybe that would be the best thing for me. if i didn't have my parents to think about i'd have given in my notice a long time ago, i'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what i think, tell him everything i would, let him know just what i feel."