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Don’t forget to participate in recitation discussion!

Don’t forget to participate in recitation discussion! Good recitation = no discussion question for next week Assignment instructions clear? Powerpoints now on blog Any Questions? News Review!. Discussion Question. What are the types of news that Fish talked about on Monday? A report/story

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Don’t forget to participate in recitation discussion!

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  1. Don’t forget to participate in recitation discussion! • Good recitation = no discussion question for next week • Assignment instructions clear? • Powerpoints now on blog • Any Questions? • News Review!

  2. Discussion Question • What are the types of news that Fish talked about on Monday? • A report/story • Timeliness/new/newshook • Importance generally • Importance to your audience-proximity • Impact • interesting • What types of news did you find? • What types did you find the most of? • Which did you like the best? Why? • How do you decide what is news?

  3. The Value of Bearing Witness • What did you think of this essay? • What is the value of bearing witness? • What do you think we should share with the world?

  4. Hargreaves: Chapter 2 • Definition of civic journalism • What is the purpose? • What are some examples? • Why is it important? • Definition of convergent media • Why does this change regulations? • What approach did Britain and America take? • What do you think about this? • How do some UK countries’ regulations differ from the U.S.? Specifically broadcast?

  5. Kovach/Rosenstiel: Chapter 6 • Three types of investigative reporting • Original • Interpretive • Reporting on investigations • What are the characteristics of investigative reporting? • How is investigative reporting different from regular reporting? • Watchdog • Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein • Watergate • All the President’s Men

  6. Kovach/Rosenstiel: Chapter 8 • Make the significant interesting and relevant • What makes a story interesting? • How? • Infotainment • Tabloids-real journalism? • Study by Project for Excellence in Journalism • 1977: 31% of covers concerned political or international figures, 15% concerned entertainment • 1997: 1 in 10 covers concerned political or international figures, more than 2 in 10 concerned entertainment • What do you think? • Innovative Approaches to storytelling/writing an article

  7. Kovach/Rosenstiel: Chapter 9 • Keep the news comprehensive and in proportion • How do we decide what news to include? • Mapmaker concept • What is it? • What are it’s limits? • What is hype? • How do we avoid it? • Examples?

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