Journalism

Monday, October 13, 2014

2013-14 Crimson Chronicle Critique

For the first time, the Crimson Chronicle has received a First Class designation from the National Scholastic Press Association. Read the critique of last year's paper in the shared documents folder in Drive. Write three comments on what you read. Post those comments here.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Lesson: A Consumer's Guide to Sourcing in News Reports | The News Literacy Project

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Lie Detector Challenge | The News Literacy Project

In honor of National News Engagement Day today, please complete this challenge.

Lie Detector Challenge | The News Literacy Project

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Summary lead writing

Refer to this slide presentation if you get stuck in writing your own lead.

Summary lead writing

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Eight Elements of News

Review this presentation on the eight elements of news. Then, if you are a new student, go to quizstar.4teachers.org and take the quiz. If you already took the quiz, take the makeup quiz. If you took it once, I have re-set each one for two attempts. The first quiz has a time limit of 10 minutes; the makeup has a time limit of five minutes.

Eight Elements of News

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.