The 9th Media Monitor (or any of the bonuses not yet submitted) can be posted here, deadline Friday Nov. 6 at 5pm. 

      The department has no administrative staff at present – students will no longer be receiving weekly reminders of their assignments in the email (in the first place, they are expected to know what the weekly assignments are — being college students).      

          There will be no media monitor during the APEC holiday week Nov. 17-20 (to be fair to everyone) while the 50-point exam will push thru in the last class week. There will be no media monitor in the last class week to be fair to all examinees.

           In sum, the media monitor posts will be open in the following two weeks: Nov. 3, today, the 9th media monitor, deadline Friday 5pm Nov. 6. Finally, the 10th media monitor will be open on Nov. 10, deadline Nov. 13. As stated, there will be no media monitor during the holiday week and during the last class week.

              As stated repeatedly, the cramming of media monitor posts is not allowed. And, to be redundant, the objective of the exercise is to build the habit of regularly viewing or reading the news and other media content with a discerning eye. For students who posted more than one post in a week, the extra post was applied to the next week. For the student who crammed three bonus posts in the window for the 8th media monitor post: The two extra posts will be applied to the two weeks after the 8th media monitor week, i.e., this week and the next. (the 9th Nov. 3, and the 10th Nov. 10).  

        Also, in view of the APEC holiday week, we are constrained to move our schedule of presentations one week in advance. All topics starting from reporting on tragedies, conflict-reporting etc. etc. ending up to the ethical challenges in documentary filmmaking, inclusive (inclusive of all topics in between the start, reporting on tragedies, up to ethical challenges in docu filmmaking) will have to be presented this week — students who are not ready with their presentation will forfeit their chance to report. The rest of the topics (advertising ethics, new media ethics, research or discussion on plagiarism) are expected to be presented next week. 

           Thanks everyone, and happy watching, reading and monitoring 🙂