JRNL1150 (Understanding Today’s News) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Average rating 4.2/5. Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Examines the media institutions that shape the news and how the challenges of economics, politics, diversity, and globalization change the function of the website, newspaper, news magazine, and news broadcasts. Examines stories and news decisions from different perspectives to evaluate national, political, local, foreign, sports, and science news in the U.S. media. Topics include responsibilities of the press and the changing ways news is gathered, processed, and disseminated. Explores how other societies in different parts of the world view the news; freedom of the press; and the role of reporters, producers, and editors.
Data updated October 2026.