Citing titles on the Internet is still evolving, but here is the latest method of citation, and the one you are to use in this Current Events course. Title of item. Division of Independent Study. This method of citation will be expected throughout the course. Newspapers are periodically published, usually at constant intervals, to report events happening throughout the world.
Publishers are in the business of selling newspapers and newspapers can be an important news source.
There are many kinds of on-line newspapers. Hard news deals with straightforward, less popular, less exciting, but important events told only in facts. Hard news stories are concerned with public affairs-whether political, social, economic, or scientific in content. Soft news is frequently of greater interest to the average newspaper reader seeking entertainment first, and facts second. It includes shocking crimes, stories about personalities, and sometimes amounts to no more than gossip.