jan 29-feb 2

Today: sort and begin typing senior quotes, etc.

If you have pages due February 22 for sports,  organizations, etc., let us know by Monday if they are NOT going to have a yearbook photo/page. Tell the coaches/sponsors that we must have the group photo made by Feb 16.

Other than seniors, is anyone not coming back?

Superlatives

If I am supposed to help you with pages, especially photos, remind me at least every class meeting. Academy photos for example.

Did I miss your pages due report? Check your grade.

ACT Words
•Sketch or write_make a book today
http://hillwoodyearbook.blogspot.com/2011/10/act-words-assignment.html
•3 words per week
•Counts as homework
•Due the last class of each week (next week)

Final Exam study guide

yearbook final review 2018

Be able to list and explain  the 5 W''s and H

The Five "W"s and the "H"

This is the crux of all news - you need to know five things:

Who?   What?   Where?   When?   Why?   How?

Any good news story provides answers to each of these questions. You must drill these into your brain and they must become second nature.

For example, if you wish to cover a story about a local sports team entering a competition you will need to answer these questions:

• Who is the team? Who is the coach? Who are the prominent players? Who are the supporters?
• What sport do they play? What is the competition?
• Where is the competition? Where is the team normally based?
• When is the competition? How long have they been preparing? Are there any other important time factors?
• Why are they entering this particular competition? If it's relevant, why does the team exist at all?
• How are they going to enter the competition? Do they need to fundraise? How much training and preparation is required? What will they need to do to win?

What is Journalism?

Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information. It is also the product of these activities.

That value flows from its purpose, to provide people with verified information they can use to make better decisions, and its practices, the most important of which is a systematic process – a discipline of verification – that journalists use to find not just the facts, but also the “truth about the facts.”

Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth

This “journalistic truth” is a process that begins with the professional discipline of assembling and verifying facts. Then journalists try to convey a fair and reliable account of their meaning, subject to further investigation.

Journalists should be as transparent as possible about sources and methods so audiences can make their own assessment of the information.

The publisher of journalism – whether a media corporation answering to advertisers and shareholders or a blogger with his own personal beliefs and priorities — must show an ultimate allegiance to citizens. They must strive to put the public interest – and the truth – above their own self-interest or assumptions.

Its essence is a discipline of verification

Journalists rely on a professional discipline for verifying information.

While there is no standardized code as such, every journalist uses certain methods to assess and test information to “get it right.”

Being impartial or neutral is not a core principal of journalism. Because the journalist must make decisions, he or she is not and cannot be objective. But journalistic methods are objective.

When the concept of objectivity originally evolved, it did not imply that journalists were free of bias. It called, rather, for a consistent method of testing information – a transparent approach to evidence – precisely so that personal and cultural biases would not undermine the accuracy of the work. The method is objective, not the journalist.

Seeking out multiple witnesses, disclosing as much as possible about sources, or asking various sides for comment, all signal such standards. This discipline of verification is what separates journalism from other forms of communication such as propaganda, advertising, fiction, or entertainment.

Journalism should also attempt to fairly represent varied viewpoints and interests in society and to place them in context rather than highlight only the conflicting fringes of debate. Accuracy and truthfulness also require that the public discussion not neglect points of common ground or instances where problems are not just identified but also solved.

Citizens, too, have rights and responsibilities when it comes to the news

The average person now, more than ever, works like a journalist.

Writing a blog entry, commenting on a social media site, sending a tweet, or “liking” a picture or post, likely involves a shorthand version of the journalistic process. One comes across information, decides whether or not it’s believable, assesses its strength and weaknesses, determines if it has value to others, decides what to ignore and what to pass on, chooses the best way to share it, and then hits the “send” button.

Though this process may take only a few moments, it’s essentially what reporters do.

Two things, however, separate this journalistic-like process from an end product that is “journalism.” The first is motive and intent. The purpose of journalism is to give people the information they need to make better decisions about their lives and society. The second difference is that journalism involves the conscious, systematic, application of a discipline of verification to produce a “functional truth,” as opposed to something that is merely interesting or informative. Yet while the process is critical, it’s the end product – the “story” – by which journalism is ultimately judged.

Today, when the world is awash in information and news is available any time everywhere, a new relationship is being formed between the suppliers of journalism and the people who consume it.

The new journalist is no longer a gatekeeper who decides what the public should and should not know. The individual is now his or her own circulation manager and editor. To be relevant, journalists must now verify information the consumer already has or is likely to find and then help them make sense of what it means and how they might use it.

Thus, write Kovach and Rosenstiel, “The first task of the new journalist/sense maker is to verify what information is reliable and then order it so people can grasp it efficiently.” A part of this new journalistic responsibility is “to provide citizens with the tools they need to extract knowledge for themselves from the undifferentiated flood or rumor, propaganda, gossip, fact, assertion, and allegation the communications system now produces.”

What makes a good story?

A good story is about something the audience decides is interesting or important. A great story often does both by using storytelling to make important news interesting.

The public is exceptionally diverse. Though people may share certain characteristics or beliefs, they have an untold variety of concerns and interests.

So anything can be news. But not everything is newsworthy. Journalism is a process in which a reporter uses verification and storytelling to make a subject newsworthy.

At its most basic level, news is a function of distribution -– news organizations (or members of the public) create stories to pass on a piece of information to readers, viewers, or listeners.

A good story, however, does more than inform or amplify. It adds value to the topic.

The Black Box system for organizing a story

Len Reed, environment and science team leader at The Oregonian, developed a system to help reporters handle unruly information.

The Black Box helps reporters sort through and prioritize the information they have and quickly and clearly make the case for their stories to editors. With the system, writing a story is essentially boiled into four phases:

1. Reporting phase

• Gather
• Search
• Ask
• Interview
• Sort

2. Black Box phase

• What is this information?
• What does it mean?
• What does it signify?
• What is the headline?
• What is the lead?
• What is its context – with what does it connect?
• So what?
• Who cares?
• How can you quickly tell it to the clueless and make it count?

3. Editor phase

• Succinctly tell your editor what the story says.
• Tell your editor the headline that captures the story.
• Be prepared to defend your thinking.

4. Writing phase

• You’ve got a lead; now order a sequence in telling: organize.
• Write quickly, staying on track – you can go back and tweak.
• As you write, periodically ask yourself: Who cares?
• As you write, periodically frighten yourself: The audience is leaving.
• When you finish, go back and ruthlessly cut words and sentences.

Before last reading, say “no one cares”; let the story change your mind.

jan 22-26

Names for 1819 yearbook staff.

10 candid photos by Friday. 
• Wide shots of classrooms are rarely good. 
• Get closer, many shots are too dark. Lighten before you upload.

10 Coming Home photos by February 2. 

Editors_assign remaining pages with due dates

Finish pages due????????

Superlative final ballot

Proof names or grades
9 Erin, Jovita, Analese, Kinsey
10 Dakota, Taylor, Colin
11 Tom, Trinh, Annie
12 Andrew, Tina, Joseph

Editors & staff check finished pages???????????????????????????????????1-33 Andrew, Tina, Joseph
34-45 Tom, Trinh, Annie
46-55 Dakota, Taylor, Colin
56-65 Erin, Jovita, Analese, Kinsey
66-69 Yorusalem, Saskia, Monica
Sports teams, finished and ongoing, ?????


ACT Words
•Sketch or write_make a book today
http://hillwoodyearbook.blogspot.com/2011/10/act-words-assignment.html
•3 words per week
•Counts as homework
•Due the last class of each week (next week)

herff jones flow portraits

Put CD from photographer in CD drive

Click on CD icon when it appears

Press and hold the option key and drag the CD icon to make a copy of the CD on the DESKTOP

Zip this

topperselfie@gmail.com

what is news assignment

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"

Over the course of this assignment, you will present and explain portions of the article to the class. These explanations will be as part of a group or team, but everyone is required to say something individually as well.

Form four groups. Presentations will be based on weekly assignments. In other words, group one will present the week one assignments on presentation days.

All groups, read the article, indicated weekly below, and answer the questions from the reading assignment. All groups answer all the questions each week.

In your answers and presentations be sure you comment on  the following:

Week one
1. Include at least five "news values". Explain what each one means.
2. How does the intended audience affect news?
3. What are the two types of news mentioned? Explain what each means.
4. Describe, define and explain the three basic origins of new stories.

Week two
5. 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?
6. 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?

Week three
7. Read "News Providers"
a. Describe, define and explain these news sources-newspapers, magazines, radio, television, the internet. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.
b. What are some of the "additional skills" today's journalists may need?
8. Discuss the principles of journalism in a democratic society

Week four
9. 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.


Week five
Presentations

Your grade: 

Assessment for written responses:

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.

The presentation:
1. Tell me what you are going to tell me
2. Tell me (details and explanation)
3. Tell me what you told me

Also,

Keep it simple and brief, with minimal text. 3 minutes maximum.
This does not have to be PowerPoint, but does have to have visuals.
Everyone in the group should speak (notecards?).

Have fun. Be creative.
Rap it
Cheer it
Perform it
Make it fun and exciting



Assessment for presentation:


Presentation rubric: (maximum of 20 points for each category)

_____ Speaking and research skills could facilitate interviewing and other oral communication activities.

_____ Evidence of language skills, demeanor, and attire to cultivate success and good public relations.

_____ Journalistic vocabulary common to the industry to speaking, listening, and writing activities.

_____Legal and ethical journalistic standards applied to presentation activities.

_____ Clarity of explanation, in terms of the explanation content, plus vocalization and speech.


Audience Participation rubric:
1. Individual pays total attention to presentation. 100 points.
2. Individual uses electronic devices, internet, computers, talks, sleeps or otherwise does not pay respectful attention to presenters. 50 points possible deduction.

december 3_8

Midterm exam

Superlative nominations

NHS help

Senior Exemptions

Deadlines

Finish pages this week

•66, 76, 
•78, 79, 80 (titles and type) http://hillwoodyearbook.blogspot.com/2017/11/sports-and-organization-pages.html

•Academy candids

•Large Academy Photos????????

Tuesday, December 5
Hillwood Rock Bands Concert, 6:30pm

Thursday, December 7
Hillwood Chamber Choir, Mixed Chorus, Symphonic Band, Strings, Percussion Ensemble Concert, 6:30pm

Can anyone take photos?????

Everyone, watch for:

photos that are too dark, lighten in Photoshop before you upload

hand signs that are, or could be interpreted as, gang signs

Discussion

Problem: I need photos

Solution: For example, I need photos of Health Science, but I'm not in the Health Science Academy.

Is anyone on the yearbook staff in the 
HS Academy?

If the answer is yes, that person(s) should take a camera with you for several days and take photos. The black point and shoots are excellent for this.



p5 Andrew_needs a headline

p32 Alex_replace photo of guys doing hand signs

p65 Yorusalem  ????????????????


p76 Mohamed????????????

p79 Alex_needs name of team and fix names - bold, not all names are finished.

p78 Annie ?????????????????????

p80 Saskia ????????????????? we have talked

p81 Tom ??????????????????????

pp 92 and 93 Latiana ?????????????????????????????