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News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media, 7/e
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Exercise 2.1
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Exercise 2.6

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Exercise 2.6

Complete this exercise offline and then either e-mail or hand the exercise in to your instructor.

Monitor a local or cable television newscast. List all the stories broadcast and the approximate time devoted to each. Compare the stories featured on the newscast with those in an area newspaper for that day. What are the differences? What are the similarities? Do you see any evidence of convergence?