Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Introduction to Mass Communications (Chad Tew)

Course information

 * University: University of Southern Indiana
 * Course title: Introduction to Mass Communications
 * Professor name: Dr. Chad Tew
 * Professor's Wikipedia username:
 * Course start date: Aug. 21, 2012
 * Assignment due date: Nov. 20, 2012

Course description
Presentation, lectures, and assignments designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of mass communication; to foster an understanding of the roles and functions of communication media in our society; to present concepts and principles of journalism; and to prepare students to be intelligent users of media.

Instructor and Ambassadors

 * Instructor: Chad Tew (Crtew (talk))


 * Campus Ambassadors:


 * Online Ambassadors:
 * AH1 (discuss!)
 * GuillaumeTell (talk)
 * Lady of  Shalott  (talk)

Wikipedia assignment
Students will create and write new articles about journalists who have been killed while reporting using inline citation for verificatin. For each journalist, write a statement of notability, and include biographical details, a description of the situation surrounding the death, the political/social context of the country where the journalist was killed, and statements of impact from around the world. Create an infobox and a map. Develop categories for the article.

Updated (2012): Some media organizations are now included. Some journalists are now included who are missing, freed, and living. Some incidents are covered where one or more journalists were killed. Some female journalists from Lebanon are featured.

Articles
This table will list each article that a student is working on, and which other students will be peer reviewers for the article.

Notes:
 * Journalists from SANA = † Ali Abbas from SANA died July 5, 2012 in Syria.
 * Journalists from Syria News Channel = †† Hatem Abu Yehia from Syria News Channel, or Al-Ikhbariya, died August 10, 2012. Earlier his colleagues Sami Abu Amin and Mohammad Shamma died in an incident on June 27, 2012.
 * Journalists from Shaam News Network = ††† Ammar Mohamed Suhail Zado, Lawrence Fahmy al-Naimi, and Ahmed Adnan al-Ashlaq died May 27, 2012 in Syria while working for Shaam News Network. Two freelance journalists, Bassel al-Shahade and Ahmed al-Assam, died with them in the same incident.
 * †††† Suhaib Dib, Mohamed Hamdo Hallaq, Samer Khalil Al-Sataleh, Ghias Khaled Al-Hmouria, Omar Al-Ghantawi, Ahmed Hamada and Khaled Al-Bakir