Country adoption preliminary deadlines

We will begin your country adoption reports Thursday, March 23 and have two or three a day. Date assignments will be made March 9.

• By Thursday, Feb. 9, post below the person and media you will contact.
• By Tuesday, Feb. 16, you will have made contact by email with a media person in your country. We will discuss this in class. 
• In initial email, introduce yourself; tell the person who you are and that  you're doing this for a university class; and give the link to Clarkinternational as a reference. 
• Ask for a confirmation email.
• Let them know you need to visit with them, via email, no later than March 9.
• Ask them for a date when they'd have time to respond.
• If the person does not respond within 24 hours, send another email. If that doesn't work, find a backup person immediately.
• Being unable to contact a media person will subtract 30 points from your 150-point project.
• Send them the list of questions you'd to discuss:

1. What is the roll of the media in their country?
2. How has the Internet and social media changed media in their country?
3. What is the most important thing to know about media in their country?
4. Who controls the media in their country?
5. What are the strengths of the media in their country?
6. What are the weaknesses of the media in their country?

In your email, I suggest some form of the following:

I'm a senior (major) student at the University of Central Oklahoma in an international media class.
For my class assignment, I'm studying the media in your country and would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions for me.
Your views on the news media will be vital to  my class presentation later this semester. The questions I'd like to ask follow. Would it be possible to have your answers by (date)?