Please look at the representation of Islam and Islamic people, write a 1000 word fully-referenced critical analysis of the news content. You will need to provide: a brief abstract, a description of the methodology you use to measure the news stories, a short literature review, an analysis of your data, and a conclusion. looking at the language that’s used in reports, where the stories sit in newspapers or in news bulletins, how certain groups of people are represented, what sources are used, what are the sources of stories, etc.

Please use these references provided as well as others from your research.

1) Herbert, J 2001 “Practising Global Journalism”
2) Quaraishu, B 2001 ‘Islam in the Western Media’ in the Muliticultural Skyscraper Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 3 12 Oct, p. 6
3) Analysing Newspaper Content. A How-To Guide by Lynch and Limor Peer, ph. D. 2002
4) Said, E 1997, ‘Islam as news’, in Covering Islam: how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world. Reved, Vintage, NY, p.3-35
5) Seib, P 2002, ‘Collision: technology, money and ethics’, in the global journalist: news and conscience in a world of conflict, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, p.1-22

and some helpful links:
http://www.lowitja.org.au/sites/default/files/docs/Thesis-UPDATED-08.pdf

http://sspa.boisestate.edu/communication/files/2010/05/Brubaker-and-Hanson-The-Effect-of-Fox-News-and-CNN-Postdebate-Commentary.pdf

http://www.readership.org/content/content_analysis/data/how-to.pdf

Cheers..