What I want you to know:
1. What news is
2. What "news values" are part of news
3. How "audience" affects news content
4. Different types of news
5. The journalist's role in news
In the links and assignments column, read the article "What is news" and answer the following. Upload your answers to Edmodo. You will be able to use your answers for the final, as an open-book exam.
Week one_april 21-25
1. What are five "news values". Explain what each one means.
2. How does the intended audience affect news?
Week two_april 28_may 2
1. What are the two types of news mentioned? Explain what each means.
2 Describe, define and explain the three basic origins of new stories.
Week 3_may 5_9
1. Read "The Journalist's Role".
a. How is a journalist different from a propagandist or gossip?
b. How does the concept of independence enter into the role of a journalist?
2. Read "Objectivity and Fairness".
a. What was the original meaning of the term "objectivity"?
b. Explain the concept of "objectivity" after 1996.
c. From reading the last three paragraphs, comment on fairness and balance. If there are two or more sides to a story, should equal time or space be given to all groups? Why or why not?
3. List one example of fair and balanced news as well as one example that is not fair and balanced. Explain why you believe this is true.
Your responses should be brief, but thorough, containing all the most important information from the text. You could think of these as notes that you will use for your presentation.
Rubric:
1. Responses contain thorough and adequate information in answers to the questions asked about the text read. 4 points. 100-93.
2. Responses contain sufficient information in answers to the questions asked about the text read. 3 points. 92-85.
3. Responses contain limited information in answers to the questions asked about the text read. 2 points. 84-75.
4. Responses contain limited information in answers to the questions asked about the text read. 1 point. 74-50.
