Journalism

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

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

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Decisions on Deadline

Play this game.

Decisions on Deadline

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Top 10 Schools to Major in Journalism: Guess Who's #1? (Fight On!)

Top 10 Schools to Major in Journalism: Which Institution's Graduates Earn $86,000 Mid-Career? : News : University Herald

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

National Scholastic Press Association Critique

We finally received our critique of the five issues we submitted last year.
Your Assignment: read the critique in the box above and write a response to one of the strengths cited by the judge and one of the weaknesses. Specifically, what can we do to improve on our weaknesses? Post your response on the blog.

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.