What is news and what does it look like? This course examines visual aspects of the news in relation to ongoing media changes from print (newspapers and magazines) to social media, from news-as-satire to news represented 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? What is lost or gained across different media? What is the social value of tabloids, celebrity gossip, and “page 6”? How do we “read” photography, typography, illustration, and info-graphics in the news? How is news transformed when delivered instantaneously by crowds uploading images and tweeting? How do we understand changes in the news with the increased absence of traditional journalists and photojournalists, editor-free zones, and increasing reliance on crowd-sourcing? What is the impact of “fake news”? What happens to criticality when we have multiple, and in many cases snapshot, views of the news?

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