Thursday, March 27, 2014

What is Journalism


standards:

Oral
• Apply terms and expressions common to the industry to speaking, listening, and writing
activities.
• Apply legal and ethical journalistic standards to all journalism activities.

Written
• Demonstrate appropriate language usage skills and research techniques.
• Demonstrate appropriate journalistic writing style for various media.
• Recognize the difference between fact and opinion and its appropriate use in media production.
• Use computers (if available) to compose, edit, and revise work for publication.
• Write for an intended (prescribed) audience, recognizing the importance of ethics in information
gathering and reporting.
• Demonstrate editing and revision techniques to produce work suitable for publication/
production.


    What I want you to know:
        .   The definition of journalism
        .   The purpose of journalism
        .   The elements of journalism




Assignment:

Go to this link.

week 1_What is journalism? Read the first two sentences. In your own words, describe what this means. Explain what each term, gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting, means.

List 5 examples or sources of journalism. Explain why you consider this an example of "legitimate" journalism.

week 2_What is the purpose of journalism? Summarize this, in your own words, using not more than two sentences.

week 3_List the 10 elements common to good journalism and explain what each means, in your own words.

week 4_Read "Journalism as a discipline of verification". List and summarize the meaning of the  three core concepts – transparency, humility, and originality of the discipline of verification.

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week 5_Come up with an idea for a 3-5 paragraph news story about Hillwood High School. Write
one to two sentences telling me what the idea is.

week 6_List the who, what, when, where, why and how for your story. Refer to:
http://www.mediacollege.com/journalism/news/write-stories.html

week 7_Take 3 photos to be used as part of the story

week 8_Write and turn in your story

week 9_Grade your news story using the rubric below. Press and hold Command, and press + if the rubric is too small to read.Read and answer or discuss the following:





Assessment:




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