What was/is news? What did/does it look like? What are misinformation and disinformation? This course examines the news in relation to ongoing changes from print to social media, from news-as-satire to news in film. We will investigate the relationship between content and appearance as changing technologies instantaneously present us with multiple points of view of potentially newsworthy events. What does credibility look like? This is a central question as we face the profound effects of fake news. What is lost or gained across different media? What is the social value of tabloids, celebrity gossip, and "page 6"? How do we interpret photography, typography, illustration, and info-graphics? How do we understand changes in the news with the increasing absence of traditional journalists, photojournalists, and editors? What sort of criticality evolves when we have multiple (often snapshot) views of the news? How is news transformed when algorithms drive what we see? What does social media owe us?

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