TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the student newspaper
T2 - An opportunity to teach research methods
AU - Mersey, Rachel Davis
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - This article provides a case study of an innovative approach to teaching quantitative methods to journalism students. By posing questions that inspire curiosity, this method suggests that we can motivate students who might be apprehensive about statistics to embrace them in pursuit of answers. It was employed in a media analysis course taught by Knight Chair in Journalism Philip Meyer. In the course, Meyer’s 2004 book, The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, provided the blueprint for the students’ examination of their campus newspaper and an entree into quantitative methods for the social sciences and/or investigative reporting.
AB - This article provides a case study of an innovative approach to teaching quantitative methods to journalism students. By posing questions that inspire curiosity, this method suggests that we can motivate students who might be apprehensive about statistics to embrace them in pursuit of answers. It was employed in a media analysis course taught by Knight Chair in Journalism Philip Meyer. In the course, Meyer’s 2004 book, The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, provided the blueprint for the students’ examination of their campus newspaper and an entree into quantitative methods for the social sciences and/or investigative reporting.
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U2 - 10.1177/107769580606100109
DO - 10.1177/107769580606100109
M3 - Article
SN - 1077-6958
VL - 61
SP - 66
EP - 78
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
IS - 1
ER -