Comm 2320
Basic Reporting for the School of Communication at ECU

Photojournalism isn’t given as much attention in art circles as some photographers would like. Photos can often capture information and human reactions that can’t be described with text alone —colors and facial expressions become the words that tell the story.
Fortunately, with the popularity of the Internet, photo essays are becoming an accepted way to [...]

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By: Jay Ross, Doug Palmer, Jordan Horvath and Shemeh Shirbabadi
Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
In this year’s 2008 National Elections, two Presidential candidates and two Vice Presidential candidates endured months of mockery and jokes. Some candidates tolerated the media more than others. It became the core interest of the American population and began [...]

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Technology can be defined several ways; we are defining it as any type of electronic communication, such as cell phones, Internet, television or the radio. We felt that campaigns’ effective use of technology in this election year would help make or break their message [...]

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As the economy takes another turn for the worst, American’s turn to the presidential candidates for answers.
After President Bush announced his proposal for the $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, both presidential candidates began seeking answers from top consultants.
According to an article by washingtonpost.com, both John McCain and Barack Obama began [...]

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Through extensive research around campus about the political campaign we discovered how much the student body of East Carolina University truly knows about the politics. We gave an exploratory survey to 100 East Carolina Students and asked them numerous questions about politics. Some questions were simple yes or no questions that all the [...]

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Erin Barnette, Alison LeBlanc, Jill Adams, and Ryan Davis
Who Cares? The Issues
Our power point presentation discussed several of the different issues that faced the 18-29 demographic during the November 4, 2008 Presidential Election. Although there were many issues facing the young voters this election, the issues we ultimately decided to research [...]

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The upcoming presidential election may very well be more important than those before it. The country is in a transition and it needs a powerful leader to help keep her healthy and stable. While some may point out that each new election brings an added sense of patriotism and change, thus making this [...]

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Stefanie Wethington
Carlton Purvis
Travis Ostrander
Patrick Jones
Akela Yarn
Videos
1. “The Daily Show’s Influence Over Young America” (See slide 3 video—video is 3:37 minutes long, but you only have to play until 1:09 to get the gist)
2. “Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey as Sarah Palin” (See slide 12)
3. “Sarah Palin on Saturday Night [...]

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By Exum Harrell, Ashley Howerton, and Joshua Pake
Videos we show (from youtube.com):
“Barack Obama Supporters Head to Charleston”
“Harlem Voters”
For our COMM 2320 Basic Reporting class coverage of the 2008 elections, our group decided to examine the image of each candidate. We set out to interview students to get a feel for how they [...]

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Entertainment media and the 2008 Presidential Election
We decided to do our research on entertainment media’s effect on public opinion for the 2008 presidential election because we expected entertainment media to have a large impact on overall votes. We started by developing a survey to administer to students with these questions: Age/year in [...]

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By: Seth Firquin, Bethany DeGraff, Analicia Robinson & Elizabeth Perle
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Our power point provides links to:
“McCain: Fundamentals of Economy Strong” a youtube.com video describing McCain’s initial reaction to the financial crisis.
“Barack Obama on the Economy in Chillicothe, Ohio” a youtube.com video of Obama addressing Ohio about the current financial crisis.
“Buchanan: Obama [...]

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Before August 29, 2008, very few people knew the name Sarah Palin, much less Wasilla Alaska. Since being chosen as John McCain’s running mate, the Republican Governor is now a household name —thanks in large part to the media and the fact that Palin is only the second woman to be chosen as a vice [...]

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September 12
President George Bush has remained in the background since the race for the white house began last year. He made news this week however, with two announcements that caused more confusion than clarity about withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East.
First he announced that 8,000 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by [...]

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