Journalism - HyattLangandCompHonors
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Journalism
Media Literacy Unit
Honors Language and Composition
Some definitions
Gathering and reporting of news through
the media
Reporting, writing, editing,
photographing, or broadcasting news
Activity of writing for newspapers or
magazines or of broadcasting news on
radio or television
Role of Journalism
Give fair, accurate and unbiased opinions of
the events as they unfold. through investigative
reporting or on the scene reporting.
Eyes and ears of the citizens.
Journalist interprets news as it is happening
such as a news conference, public event or a
court proceeding.
Humor or entertain us: political cartoons,
human-interest stories, commentaries,
columns.
First Amendment:
protected speech
Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of
the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of
grievances.
History of Journalism
http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Cours
es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist
ory.html
Journalists Code of Ethics
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Ethics
Libel
Slander
Bias
Protecting Sources
Respecting Privacy
Changes in journalism
Trends and statistics
Citizen journalism
Embedded journalists
The Blogosphere
Digital journalism
The demise of the
newspaper
Over the past two decades newspaper
circulation continues to fall
Why?
Internet is free
Advertising revenues down
Budget cuts
One paper cities, as opposed to 2-3
Can newspapers survive?
Even The Spoke is
reacting
www.stoganews.com
Citizen Journalism
Everyone can be a journalist
Flip cams
Smart phones
Digitalized media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_FsY
6ksDzk
Embedded Journalism
Used in war situations
News reporters attached to military units
Good or bad?
Positive: view into a world previously not
known to public
Negative: military propaganda
The Blogosphere
Instant, raw, unedited and uncensored
Self-publishing
Sometimes shocking
Biased
Free
Credibility questionable; consider the
source
Digitalized Journalism
Many news sources are known for their
online presence:
Huffington Post
Slate
Traditional to digital: cnn.com, msnbc.com,
etc.
Instant News
Twitter
Google Alerts
RSS feeds
At what cost?
Other types:
Photojournalism
Pictures that tell stories
Photojournalism
Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism:
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2011Breaking-News-Photography
Other types: documentary
A new form of investigative journalism
Activism
More prominent as journalism since
advent of CNN type “snippet” news
Homework
Find an article online about one of the
following topics:
Embedded journalists
Blogs and journalism
Citizen journalism
Ethics in journalism
Another media related current event
Be prepared to discuss main points
Homework, Continued
Attach article to a typed document that
includes the following:
MLA header
Name of article, source, author, date
A one-two paragraph summary of main
ideas
Intended audience (may need to research
readership statistics)