1. This Week: we write a hard news story
Mon 2 /27 English I-A
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This Week: we write a hard news story
Today: the mysteries of the inverted pyramid
due 2/ weeks ago word Personality Profile (50 points) - about a third of you don’t have this in yet - IF YOU’RE STUCK LET ME HELP
HW DUE THURS: Book report 3, Paragraph 4
in your notebooks please

2. Journalism Unit Resource - SAVE!
The Inverted Pyramid is how all journalism stories are organized - especially hard news. This allows editors to easily delete less important info - just cut from the bottom to make room for other stories or advertising! YOU’LL USE THIS MODEL WHEN YOU WRITE YOUR HARD NEWS STORY.

3. 2/27 Hard news stories models and exercises
Do exercises and save for your hard news story
SISTER AND BROTHER KILLED
WHEN BUS, SNOWPLOW CRASH
ALBIN, WYOMING — A snowplow slammed into a school bus on an icy road Wednesday, killing two siblings and injuring their older brother and two other people.
The crash occurred just before 8 a.m. about eight miles north of the ranching community of Albin, according to Wyoming State Patrol trooper Perry Jones. The bus had made only one stop before the crash.
An 11-year-old girl died at the scene and her 8-year-old brother died later at a hospital, authorities said. Their 18-year-old brother suffered minor injuries.
The bus driver was in serious condition with chest and abdominal injuries, and the plow driver was treated for minor injuries and released.
The K-12 school the children and the teenager attend canceled classes at midday.
• Writing in this story is simple and direct.
• Note sources of information in second and third paragraphs (“Jones” and “authorities.”)
• Story is not written in a narrative form. It doesn’t begin at the beginning and end at the end. Rather it presents information in order of its importance. <Inverted pyramid>
• Note the short sentences and short paragraphs.
1.inverted pyramid question: If the last sentence was cut from the story, how much would it change the story?
_____________________________
____________________________
2. How much would it change the story if the first sentence was cut?
______________________________
3. Circle the lead and label it.
4. How many verbs can you find? ____________ (Don’t forget “was”.)
5. Contrast the first verb in the story with the last verb. How are they different from each other?
6. If there’s no byline - no named reporter - who wrote the story?

4. 2/27 Hard news stories models and exercises
Do exercises and save for your hard news story
1.inverted pyramid question: If the last sentence was cut from the story, how much would it change the story?
_____________________________
____________________________
2. How much would it change the story if the first sentence was cut?
______________________________
3. Circle the lead and label it.
4. How many verbs can you find? ____________ (Don’t forget “was”.)
5. Contrast the first verb in the story with the last verb. How are they different from each other?
6. If there’s no byline - no named reporter - who wrote the story?
QUAKE HITS SEABED OFF GREEK ISLAND
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong earthquake shook the seabed off the southern island of Crete on Thursday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5 and its epicenter was 220 miles south of Athens. The quake occurred at 8:51 a.m.
Earlier, another quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 occurred offshore in the Aegean Sea about 213 miles northeast of Athens. No injuries or damage were reported from the moderate temblor, which struck at 2:03 a.m. near the island Samothrace.
A quake of magnitude 2.5 to 3 is the smallest generally felt by people. A quake of magnitude 4 often causes slight damage. Magnitude 5 can produce moderate damage.
• As in the previous story, the last two paragraphs give background or non-timely information.
• The lead paragraph uses a strong, descriptive verb.

5. Compare Print news to TV news: Here’s CNN Student News for Mon. 2/27
Both the print stories we studied and the CNN stories have leads; how are the the leads similar? How are they different?

6. Today:
Personality Profile: redo on headline and lead
workshop/peer edit
Exchange and read papers
Make a comment
Ask a question
Report out - what are your favorites? Why?
NEXT: Journalism Unit Resource: credible sources - set up notes

7. 2/22 Journalism Unit Resource: credible sources. SAVE
2/22 Journalism Unit Resource: credible sources. SAVE! Journalism, news, is about accurate, credible - which means believable - information. Ethical journalism uses credible sources. Where do journalists, reporters, get credible information?
Themselves. Reporter on the scene. Reporters are trained to use their eyes and ears to gather facts. They ask factual questions: who, what, when, where, how, and sometimes why. Professional reporters are educated and trained to avoid bias.
Other reputable reporters; reputable “pool” services like AP (Associated Press), or Reuters;
An eyewitness. A person who was on the scene. Obviously valuable information. But ordinary people are not trained to observe or remember facts; can get emotionally involved and insert their opinions, or forget important information; eyewitness information is most useful when backed up by trained reporters;
Others trained in reporting. Police, fire, EMS, doctors, public school teachers, court reporters, medical secretaries are all required by law to accurately report events;
Expert testimony. An expert is someone who by education or profession should have accurate information about a subject.. Examples would include scientists, technicians, scholars… or ranchers. For example, to find out technical information about a plant, ask a biologist. To find out about a law, ask a lawyer. To find out what breed of cow winters over best in the John Day basin, ask a local rancher. The US government has many departments and agencies whose sole legal function is to do research and make it available to the public. A good example would be the CIA Factbook, which has detailed information about every country in the world. Another would be the US Census, which has population, age, race, income information about every county in America. These are credible journalistic sources.
Current documentation based on the sources above, as published in books, magazines, newspapers, websites, and blogs.

8. 2/22 Journalism credible sources. We compare “other trained reporters”
In your notebook, set up two columns of notes, comparing these two videos about reporting.
What do you notice? How are they similar? How are they different?
EMS reporting
“The Medic Minute” EMS discussion of S.O.A.P.
(7:00 minute)
Police reporting
Albuquerque NM Training Video on Police Reporting
(3:20)

9. Journalism assignment. 25 points
Journalism assignment. 25 points. Due Monday 2/20 Name ___________ Per ___ date __
The article (“Monumental Debate”) discusses a current Federal proposal to make 2.5 million acres of S.E. Oregon a national monument; a status that limits commercial usage, including grazing, logging, and road-building, and conserves water, grassland, and timber resources. The proposal has both substantial support and opposition.
Our first objective with this article is to read it and answer some questions:
What is the Federal proposal? That is, what does our national government want to do with the Owyhee country?
When do they want it to happen?
Make a little table of positions (arguments) people are taking for and against establishing the monument; for example:
Arguments for a Monument:
Will restrict ranchers access, keeping cattle out; will preserve water quality
Arguments against a Monument:
Ranchers know the land and can run cattle and guard water quality without gov’t interference
4. Similarly, make a table with the different activists or activist groups named in the article, and whether they’re for or against a monument.
Who’s for the Monument?
Who’s against it?
Who’s for the Monument?
Who’s against it?

10. Bias: A judgment based on a personal point of view.
Obvious un-fairness to one side or another of an argument
Exaggeration: An overstatement or stretching of the truth.
Ad hominem attacks - means attacking the person, not the argument or the evidence
Can you find bias in the article?
Q: How can a reader determine if journalistic bias exists, if the reader doesn’t know the facts for themselves?
Great Question: how would you answer that question as an ethical journalist?

11. Headline: “Coalition forms to fight monument proposal”
Larry Meyer The Argus Observer May 10, 2016
Questions:
1. from the headline of the story, what do you conclude is the purpose of the article?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. The organizers of the coalition to stop the monument make several claims that are quoted or referred to in the story.
For example:
“...coalition secretary Andy Bentz said. It is important to have people living in rural areas take care of the land, he said.”
Should the reporter have challenged this claim? Is it evidence of bias if he did not? Why or why not? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
b. a few sentences down, the reporter quotes Bentz saying: “Local ranchers “are very interested in making the land better,”
Should the reporter have challenged this claim? Is it evidence of bias if he did not? Why or why not? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Mini-essay. (Use all the space, use complete sentences.) On the map on the other side you’ll see that the Owyhee River canyonlands area is about an hour and a half away from Ontario, where the Argus Observer is published, and seven and a half hours away from Portland, where the Oregonian/OregonLive article was published. What sort of business or community factors affecting the Argus Observer might influence the way Meyer wrote this story?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

13. Monday 2/20 Regarding Leads and Extra Credit
A factor that differentiates journalism from other writing is that in journalism something about your subject is timely or new. This timely new information is called the lead and it goes right at the beginning of a news story because:
new information gets people’s attention;
attention sells newspapers;
selling newspapers profits the newspaper’s owners directly from paper sales, and the more papers they sell - the larger their distribution - the more they can charge for advertising.
Attention equals profits.
The importance of a timely lead paragraph was modelled in class through our analysis of the front-page Blue Mountain Eagle “Wyllie” story, and Wyllie’s recent award for photographer of the year. It was further emphasized by the in-class lab exercise of writing headlines and leads for the different pictures. (The firefighter, the chihuahua and bone, the horse-race, etc..)
Many - most - of your personality profile papers demonstrated good skills and good effort. Your mechanics and your sentence construction skills are improving dramatically! Plus your interest in your subjects (moms, coaches, friends) and their lives was clearly engaging. But few of your papers focused on any main event in your subject’s life or career and few led off your profile with anything timely or new; if such “news” was included, it was often paragraphs down deep into the story.
Here’s my offer: if your Personality Profile comes back with a B and a “No lead” note,
Take the B and move on; or
Write a headline and a new 3-sentence lead paragraph emphasizing what in your subject’s story is timely or new; hand it in, typed or neatly hand-written by Wednesday 2/ points extra credit possible.

14. Stay Standing please!
Hang onto all your things
Computer lab

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Little girls
Rescue

16. Photo finish
#801 running
Dog

17. Remember, the newspaper is a business
Remember, the newspaper is a business. The weekly edition is for sale to the public, by subscription, where you pay monthly and get it delivered, or from a newsstand at $1.00 apiece.
To successfully sell to consumers, newspapers have to deliver catchy interesting content.
News stories that sell have “hooks”: headlines, first sentences, and first paragraphs that provoke interest and curiosity right at the beginning of the story. The idea, of course, is to get the consumer to stop, look, and buy the paper.
When you write your personality profile, it also should have an interesting lead. Today we’ll practice writing leads.

18. 2/8
Journalism Assignment - 20 points - due today
(1 page. Proper heading always.)
First, take a look at the 6 pictures. Ask yourself: what’s the story here? Choose one picture. On your paper, name the picture you’re using.
Write a short Personality Profile headline and lead sentence for one of these pictures.
Use your lead to get our attention and make us want to read the story (and buy the paper!)
Consider this important information you need to get across:
Who, what, when, where, how, and why. Which of these needs to be in your lead? All of them? Some of them? Choose...

19. Feature Journalism: Personality Profile. Today we practice.
People in transition make good feature journalism. Births, deaths, milestones, and achievements are all interesting. Overcoming obstacles to achieve goals is inspiring.
Today we’re going to finish practicing this by interviewing each other and writing a practice piece. Only 150 words!
Practice interview skills: ask open-ended questions; listen carefully, take accurate notes; who, what, when, where, how, why.

20. 2/6 Assignment - due Mon. 2/13 50 points
Feature Journalism: Personality Profile. (500 words.)
People in transition make good feature journalism. Births, deaths, milestones, and achievements are all interesting. Overcoming obstacles to achieve goals is inspiring.
Write your piece about a coach, a neighbor, a relative, even another student.
Who, what, when, where, how, why.

21. Write your practice piece. About 150 words.
Remember: your readers might buy the paper or they might walk by. You have to catch their interest right away.
Put the most important information first: Who are you writing about? What’s interesting about their story? Or new? Or changed? What’s been accomplished or overcome? Where do they live or where are they from? When has all this happened? How does it happen, or how did it happen? Why is it interesting?

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24. Feature Journalism: Personality Profile. Today we practice.
People in transition make good feature journalism. Births, deaths, milestones, and achievements are all interesting. Overcoming obstacles to achieve goals is inspiring.
This week your assignment will be to write a 500 word personality profile. Today we’re going to practice this by
Preparing to interview each other in class by first making notes about ourselves - at least 5 entries - about our own transition events, for example: FFA, sports, new accomplisments with hobbys, hunting, music, church, school;
Practicing interview skills: ask open-ended questions; listen carefully, take accurate notes; who, what, when, where, how, why
Practice writing: 150 words about your interview subject.

25. Personality Profile: Kaden Madden John Day -
EXAMPLE:
Personality Profile: Kaden Madden
John Day -
Kaden, at 15, has been a deer hunter since he was 12. In a sit-down with this interviewer he talked about how he has been hunting since he was, “Oh, 11, or 12, I think.” He said his parents taught him to hunt, and that all of his extended family hunt. The John Day resident, when asked about choice of weapons, talked about using multiple firearms - and bows - for deer hunting.
Asked about hunting, Madden said he could field dress deer; asked about what he did with the game, he said, “Eat them.” When questioned further the young hunter admitted he liked steaks, medium rare.
Hunting is deeply embedded in the culture of the John Day basin. For this interviewer however, it is still surprising to hear a middle-school student - girl or boy - come to school excited about a successful hunting expedition.

26. investigative reporting
byline
Name of the reporter who wrote the story, placed atop the published article.
feature
Story emphasizing the human or entertaining aspects of a situation. A news story or other material differentiated from straight news.
hard news
Straight news, spot news; live and current news in contrast to features.
investigative reporting
Technique use to unearth information that sources often want hidden.
lead
First paragraph in a news story.
masthead
Formal statement of newspaper’s name, officers, place of publication and other descriptive information, usually on the editorial page.
morgue
Newspaper library.
banner
Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line, ribbon, streamer, screamer.
beat
Area assigned to a reporter for regular coverage.
break
When a news development becomes known and available.
photojournalism
To communicate news through pictures

27. Journalism vocab spelling quiz, clear your desks, paper and pencil/pen out; proper heading;
Title it:
Journalism vocabulary Quiz 1
(When we finish, hold your quiz, we’ll correct it together - THEN hand it in)
NEXT: get out your Apostrophes and review.
WE WILL REVIEW TOGETHER THEN HAND IN

28. Journalism Assignment 1. Due Thurs.2/2. 30 points
Name ___________________
Per ___________
Date ___________
Journalism Assignment 1. Due Thurs.2/ points
ANALYZE THE CONTENT IN THE BLUE MOUNTAIN EAGLE
Count the total pages in this week’s Blue Mountain Eagle, including all advertising;
How many pages of news, sports, information, and features are there (be sure and count weather, TV listings, Police report, Senior news, this day in history)? ___________________
How many national news stories are there? _________
How many pages (or partial pages) do they use? _____,________
How many Oregon, or Pacific Northwest news stories are there?
How many pages (or partial pages) do they use? _____________
How many Grant County news stories are there? _________
How many pages (or partial pages) of advertising, including inserts and booklets? _______________
The Blue Mountain Eagle is a business. What can you tell about its sources of revenue by looking at the paper? ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
Similarly, the Blue Mountain Eagle has two different kinds of customers, and they are both buying something different from the paper. One set of customers is buying _______________________; and the other is buying ____________________________________.

29. 2/1 Wednesday Journalism Study Guide
THESE NOTES ARE FOR YOU NOT ME - KEEP FOR TOMORROW’S QUIZZES AND MORE
First: Get out the Journalism vocabulary list. Keep it out.
Add this entry in the margin:
Photojournalism
To communicate news through pictures
Next: go to your journalism notes. Make a new entry.
Date it. Head it:
BME Front page analysis
(Write a subhead underneath):
Vocabulary
Next: list the vocabulary below, and fill in specific info for each story.. Refer to each story as: “Wyllie”, or “Locals” or “Emry”
byline (for example): Wyllie - Angel Carpenter,
feature
hard news
lead (summarize, or key words)
banner
Photojournalism (who took the pictures;
summarize the content)
LAST:
Multiples of stories happened in Grant County in the middle of January, Snow and ice. The early weeks of a new President. The Blazers were blown out by Golden State. Why do you think the BME chose these three stories for its front page? Discuss with your neighbors; make notes.
In each story, what is the most important information and where is it placed? Near the front? Near the end? Why do you think it’s arranged the way it is? Discuss with your neighbors; make notes.

30. Sorting out the front page… again, these are your notes… would something like this be more helpful?
Banner for the whole front page?
Story/title
Wyllie
Locals
Emry
byline?
Hard news?
summarize the content
Feature? summarize the content
Mix of hard news and feature? summarize the content
Lead? summarize
Photojournalism (who took the pictures;
summarize the content)

31. Aspects shared by both Locals and Emry:
Name __________
Per ---
Date ______
2/2 Journalism Assignment #2. Venn diagram. Homework, due Mon. 2/6 - Emry and Locals available on BME web edition
Venn Diagram. BME Front Page stories, notes: Comparing aspects of hard news and feature news. What’s different? What’s the same? Locals with Emry. See how many you can find:
Aspects shared by both Locals and Emry:
Locals: different aspects than Emry:
Emry: different aspects than Locals:

32. Stock up with fresh supplies:
new notebook, if necessary; new paper portfolio;
Pen or pencil everyday
Buy flashcards, high-lighters.
Expect binder checks.
Save all mechanics worksheets, save 13 academic words (Flashcards); save quizzes and tests.

33. Get out Mechanics: apostrophes (handed out yesterday)
We do pg. 208 in class together.
Due complete Thurs.
Let’s try something different and see if it works better:
Complete the apostrophes worksheet on your own; some workshop time will be available Wednesday;
turn it all in on Thurs., I’ll grade it over the weekend; return it Monday; then you can cut out the instructions/directions/examples section and put it in your notebook, and save it for quizzes.

34. Set up notes: Q: what is professionalism? Q: what are ethics?
More on professionalism and ethics in journalism: video from Marist College journalism program
Set up notes: Q: what is professionalism?
Q: what are ethics?
In journalism, what are…?
Plagiarism
Fabrication
Conflict of interest
After video:
workshop journalism, other assignments

35. What is modern American journalism. What is its value to our democracy
What is modern American journalism? What is its value to our democracy? How is it changing? Why is it worth looking at now?
Bad press relations between President and national journalists:
to 2:19

36. This quarter we examine journalism. Journalism is NEWS.
News is based on facts.
It includes newspapers, news magazines, TV, radio, and internet news. We’ll focus on newspapers. Next week, you’ll start writing your own news stories.
We’ll survey newspapers’ basic business model; the history of journalism; development of professional standards; historic successes and failures; current state of the industry.
We start at home with a look at the business model of the Blue Mountain Eagle:, and look first at what it has for sale and who’s buying?
Review paper content in class: analyze categories of NEWS, OTHER INFORMATION, FEATURES, ADVERTISING AND OTHER PAID CONTENT

37. Journalism Assignments:
Journalism Assignment 1. Due Thurs.2/ points
ANALYZE THE CONTENT IN THE BLUE MOUNTAIN EAGLE
Save the Journalism Vocabulary handout.
Spelling quiz Thurs. 2/2 on the 1st 11 words only, (p. 1); 22 points.
Also due Thurs.:
Mechanics - Apostrophes

38. Count full page stories
Count ½ page stories
Count 1/4 page stories

39. 1/30 Mon. notes
Print: 60 copies of Journalism vocab
60 copies BME analysis sheet
Buy 30 copies, BME
Buy bag of dum-dum suckers.