2. How do the LAF pen drivers stack up?

4. What is news? LAFers say affects people interesting to public, affects people, useful to public interesting that people would spend money affects people, up to the minute out of the ordinary, relevant happenings of national and local issues relevant and that public is interested in info on current events or issues that are relevant useful and interesting anything that’s relevant to me!

5. What is news?

6. No one agreed upon definition

7. What is news? No one agreed upon definition “I know it when I see it” Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964

12. What is news? No one agreed upon definition “I know it when I see it” Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964 In every newsroom and website, people are constantly deciding what is news: “the ability to determine which stories are most interesting and important to readers.”

14. “This year’s Republican primary season offers us an important opportunity to confront our scruples about the privacy of faith in public life — and to get over them. We have an unusually large number of candidates, including putative front-runners, who belong to churches that are mysterious or suspect to many Americans. Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are Mormons, a faith that many conservative Christians have been taught is a “cult” and that many others think is just weird. (Huntsman says he is not “overly religious.”) Rick Perry ​, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are all affiliated with fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity, which has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction.”

16. Rev. Wright’s greatest hits “... where White folks' greed runs a world in need” “... America's chickens are coming home to roost” “... The government lied about Pearl Harbor too. They knew the Japanese were going to attack” Presented lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan

17. What is news: Inside Reporting

18. It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper

19. What is news: Inside Reporting It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper IR lays out seven items to consider: impact

20. What is news: Inside Reporting It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy,

21. What is news: Inside Reporting It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity,

22. What is news: Inside Reporting It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence,

23. What is news: Inside Reporting It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence, novelty,

24. What is news: Inside Reporting It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence, novelty, conflict

25. What is news: Inside Reporting It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence, novelty, conflict and emotions

26. “If you don’t have the goods, nobody’s going to look. That’s never going to change.”

27. Journalism pros: part III

29. What is news: Telling the Story

30. Relevance

31. What is news: Telling the Story Relevance Usefulness

32. What is news: Telling the Story Relevance Usefulness Interest

33. More specifically…

34. Impact

35. More specifically… Impact Conflict

36. More specifically… Impact Conflict Novelty

37. More specifically… Impact Conflict Novelty Prominence

38. More specifically… Impact Conflict Novelty Prominence Proximity

39. More specifically… Impact Conflict Novelty Prominence Proximity Timeliness

40. TTS v IR Impact Impact Conflict Conflict Novelty Novelty Prominence Prominence Proximity Proximity Timeliness Immediacy Emotions

42. Two points to consider News is not all ‘life and death’

44. Two points to consider News is not all ‘life and death’ News is more than a collection of facts

45. “The University of Florida defeated Florida Atlantic University on Saturday by a score of 44-3 in a football game played in Gainesville.”

47. Let ‘er rip!!!!!!!!!!!!! “The Florida Gators boldly announced the arrival of the Muschamp era Saturday night in a brutal demolition of overwhelmed Florida Atlantic University.”

49. “The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.” Harold Macmillan

50. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism

51. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism

52. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth

53. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens

54. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens; verification

55. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens; verification; independence

57. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens; verification; independence; monitor of power

58. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens; verification; independence; monitor of power; provide forum for criticism and compromise

59. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens; verification; independence; monitor of power; provide forum for criticism and compromise; make significant interesting

60. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens; verification; independence; monitor of power; provide forum for criticism and compromise; make significant interesting; news is comprehensive and proportional

61. So too journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism Proposed nine elements of journalism First obligation to the truth; first loyalty to citizens; verification; independence; monitor of power; provide forum for criticism and compromise; make significant interesting; news is comprehensive and proportional; practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience

62. Which brings us to Accuracy, Fairness & Objectivity

64. Bob Woodward “the best obtainable version of the truth...”

67. Accuracy

68. Most important characteristic of any story

69. Accuracy Most important characteristic of any story Check every name, number, quote... every detail

70. Accuracy Most important characteristic of any story Check every name, number, quote... every detail John Hopkins University = F/E

71. Accuracy Most important characteristic of any story Check every name, number, quote... every detail John Hopkins University = F/E You’ll never have all the facts, but the ones you have must be accurate

72. Then, is it fair?

73. You can be accurate but unfair. How?

74. Then, is it fair? You can be accurate but unfair. How? Get all sides of story

75. Then, is it fair? You can be accurate but unfair. How? Get all sides of story Relate circumstances

76. Which brings us to objectivity

77. Most mainstream journalists contend they strive for objectivity... even at pubs such as Time, Newsweek, NY Times, Washington Post et. al

78. Which brings us to objectivity Most mainstream journalists contend they strive for objectivity... even at pubs such as Time, Newsweek, NY Times, Washington Post et. al Objective = provable

79. Which brings us to objectivity Most mainstream journalists contend they strive for objectivity... even at pubs such as Time, Newsweek, NY Times, Washington Post et. al Objective = provable “Properly understood, objectivity provides the method most likely to yield the best obtainable version of the truth.”

80. Assignments 9/13 IR pages 74-81

81. Assignments 9/13 IR pages 74-81 Your first interview! Find somebody – in your family, a neighbor, a friend, in your church – who is a veteran of the U.S. military. You will interview them

82. Assignments 9/13 Take great notes: what service, where did they serve, combat?, rank progression, what did they learn, would they do again, how did it change attitudes about country, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

83. Assignments 9/13 Take great notes: what service, where did they serve, combat?, rank progression, what did they learn, would they do again, how did it change attitudes about country, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. You will turn in your HAND-WRITTEN interview notes (at least three pages!!)