Journalism

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Meet and Greet

Remember to bring your selected refreshment tomorrow and to dress nicely for our mixer. The faculty members are guests. Make an effort to engage them in conversation. Just be your smart, funny selves and they will be impressed.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Homework for Week of Sept. 7

Please view the PowerPoint slide presentation titled ASNE Cannons of Journalism in the Class Assignments folder in the box above. ASNE is the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Student Journalism | A Guide to Rights and Responsibilities - NYTimes.com

Please read the primer.

Student Journalism | A Guide to Rights and Responsibilities - NYTimes.com

Monday, August 22, 2011

Play This Game

Click on the title above. It's fun. It introduces students to what it's like to be a reporter and it doesn't require any writing. It takes about 15 minutes.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

newspapers2

Karina, Maria and I joined 135 students and advisers from as far away as Fresno at the four-day journalism workshop at Cal State Long Beach. At lunch, we walked over to the school's Blue Pyramid athletic stadium.

About This Class

This course is designed for those students who desire experience in print journalism and an in-depth production of a newspaper. Students have the unique opportunity to create and publish a student-driven newspaper. Newspaper students practice the fundamentals of journalistic writing, photojournalism, graphic design and budget management. Students will also develop their abilities to work as a team as they produce the newspaper.
Researchers have found that both college and non-college-bound students benefit from taking journalism in high school. A study of college freshmen found that journalism experience correlated with higher efficacy in a beginning English class (Collins and Bissell, 2002). Even teachers report less burnout and higher job satisfaction from advising the school newspaper or broadcast class, according to a study by Reinardy, Maksl and Filak (2009). Numerous studies by Dvorak and his associates have shown a correlation between journalism students and higher test scores on college readiness tests and in higher grades in high school classes.