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  es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist ory.html es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist ory.html es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist ory.html

Journalists Code of Ethics 

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 revunues down  Budget cuts  One paper cities, as opposed to 2-3  Can newspapers survive?

Even The Spoke is reacting 

Citizen Journalism  Everyone can be a journalist  Flip cams  Smart phones  Digitalized media  6ksDzk 6ksDzk 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

Other types: Photojournalism

Other types: documentary

Homework  Find an article online about one of the following topics:  Embedded journalists  Blogs and journalism  Citizen Journalism  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)

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