As a media studies academic myself— with speciality in documentary— I am reluctant to suggest assigning documentaries unless also set up for analysis but I recommend Coded Bias which will also help diversify your syllabus. It’s not news centric and it sounds like you’re only working with news but it brings interesting chances to do social analyses of technology.
For news, I think Laura Basu’s Media Amnesia is accessible. Barbie Zelizer is great (although not working on the most recent stuff gives insight into longer standing issues in reportage.)
Sorry— I geek about about this stuff
