Do Now editing exercises.
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/newsroom_051_055_review.htm
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TASK for TODAY!
BIAS in the media. Part 2.
Sir Sam Steps Down!
Hughes Fired From Cabinet.
Last names that begin with letter A-S read the first article. Last names beginning with T-Z read the second.
When finished, jot down a list of words that would describe Hughes, based on the information in front of you.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday. March 24th.
DO NOW.http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/newsroomall.htm
NY Post opinion page.
NYTimes opinion page.
Baltimore Sun opinion page.
Washington Post opinion page.
Newsday opinion page.
NY Post opinion page.
NYTimes opinion page.
Baltimore Sun opinion page.
Washington Post opinion page.
Newsday opinion page.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Case Study
Seattle Post Intelligencer
http://www.seattlepi.com/
Read This (From the Huffington Post)
SEATTLE — Patrick Sheldon has been a loyal reader of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1965, when his dad started buying it because he preferred its sports coverage to that of rival Seattle Times.
Will he continue being a loyal reader, now that the P-I exists only as a Web site? Like many of the paper's customers, he says it depends on who writes and what they cover.
"If it's just bloggers, I probably won't," he said, sitting on a ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle.
After 146 years, the P-I's final edition rolled off the presses Tuesday, but a skeleton crew remained in the cavernous newsroom to take part in a journalistic experiment: whether a major newspaper can make money, and consistently produce good stories, as an Internet-only operation. It's the first major U.S. daily paper to switch from print to digital, a step that the P-I's parent company, Hearst Corp., took after it failed to find a buyer for the newspaper.
Seattlepi.com on Tuesday featured many of the same articles that appeared in the final edition, including somber remembrances of days gone by. But it also offered a glimpse of what the site will look like once the content produced by the full staff vanishes, including breaking news updates from crime and political reporters, columns by Seattle luminaries such as U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott and about 150 blogs by readers. Some marquee names, including columnist Joel Connelly and cartoonist David Horsey, will remain on staff, while sports columnists Art Thiel and Jim Moore will freelance for the Web site.
The final edition sold quickly; The Seattle Times, which handled nonnews functions for the P-I under a joint operating agreement that dated to 1983, printed three times as many P-Is as usual. At First and Pike News, in Pike Place Market, the final P-I sold out by 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, even though the newsstand had 600 copies delivered instead of the usual 50. Liberal radio talk show host Ron Reagan, the son of the late president, showed up to buy one for his producer, who lives in New York.
"It's a sad day, but I guess that's the way things go," he said.
Sen. Patty Murray eulogized the paper on the Senate floor, crediting its investigative reporting as the reason she introduced legislation to ban asbestos and to boost the number of FBI agents in the region.
"At the end of the day, newspapers aren't just another business," she said. "For generations, newspaper reporters have been the ones who have done the digging, sat through the meetings and broken the hard stories."
At the P-I, laid-off reporters continued clearing out their desks. Some were still suffering after a night of hard drinking when they showed up Tuesday for their exit interviews.
Among those most skeptical about whether seattlepi.com can thrive with an editorial staff of 20 _ about 130 fewer than the print edition had _ are those who lost their jobs.
"You cannot kill a newsroom and still cover news; we didn't have enough people to cover everything that deserved coverage as it was!" reporter Debera Harrell wrote in a forum for P-I employees at the Columbia Journalism Review's Web site. "In an era where Paris Hilton and Angelina Jolie's breastfeeding earn the most hits off our website, maybe real journalists are not needed."
"A staff of 20 can't cover what over 150 reporters and editors covered for the print product," former assistant managing editor Janet Grimley agreed.
Several of the laid-off workers are exploring the idea of creating their own news Web site, possibly in partnership with Seattle public television station KCTS.
The remaining P-I employees say they know what they're up against.
"Seattlepi.com will continue to cover city hall, crime, courts, real estate, development, education, transportation and more," executive producer Michelle Nicolosi wrote in a letter to readers. "I hope you'll pardon our dust for the next few weeks as we launch our new digital news and information Web site."
http://www.seattlepi.com/
Read This (From the Huffington Post)
SEATTLE — Patrick Sheldon has been a loyal reader of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1965, when his dad started buying it because he preferred its sports coverage to that of rival Seattle Times.
Will he continue being a loyal reader, now that the P-I exists only as a Web site? Like many of the paper's customers, he says it depends on who writes and what they cover.
"If it's just bloggers, I probably won't," he said, sitting on a ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle.
After 146 years, the P-I's final edition rolled off the presses Tuesday, but a skeleton crew remained in the cavernous newsroom to take part in a journalistic experiment: whether a major newspaper can make money, and consistently produce good stories, as an Internet-only operation. It's the first major U.S. daily paper to switch from print to digital, a step that the P-I's parent company, Hearst Corp., took after it failed to find a buyer for the newspaper.
Seattlepi.com on Tuesday featured many of the same articles that appeared in the final edition, including somber remembrances of days gone by. But it also offered a glimpse of what the site will look like once the content produced by the full staff vanishes, including breaking news updates from crime and political reporters, columns by Seattle luminaries such as U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott and about 150 blogs by readers. Some marquee names, including columnist Joel Connelly and cartoonist David Horsey, will remain on staff, while sports columnists Art Thiel and Jim Moore will freelance for the Web site.
The final edition sold quickly; The Seattle Times, which handled nonnews functions for the P-I under a joint operating agreement that dated to 1983, printed three times as many P-Is as usual. At First and Pike News, in Pike Place Market, the final P-I sold out by 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, even though the newsstand had 600 copies delivered instead of the usual 50. Liberal radio talk show host Ron Reagan, the son of the late president, showed up to buy one for his producer, who lives in New York.
"It's a sad day, but I guess that's the way things go," he said.
Sen. Patty Murray eulogized the paper on the Senate floor, crediting its investigative reporting as the reason she introduced legislation to ban asbestos and to boost the number of FBI agents in the region.
"At the end of the day, newspapers aren't just another business," she said. "For generations, newspaper reporters have been the ones who have done the digging, sat through the meetings and broken the hard stories."
At the P-I, laid-off reporters continued clearing out their desks. Some were still suffering after a night of hard drinking when they showed up Tuesday for their exit interviews.
Among those most skeptical about whether seattlepi.com can thrive with an editorial staff of 20 _ about 130 fewer than the print edition had _ are those who lost their jobs.
"You cannot kill a newsroom and still cover news; we didn't have enough people to cover everything that deserved coverage as it was!" reporter Debera Harrell wrote in a forum for P-I employees at the Columbia Journalism Review's Web site. "In an era where Paris Hilton and Angelina Jolie's breastfeeding earn the most hits off our website, maybe real journalists are not needed."
"A staff of 20 can't cover what over 150 reporters and editors covered for the print product," former assistant managing editor Janet Grimley agreed.
Several of the laid-off workers are exploring the idea of creating their own news Web site, possibly in partnership with Seattle public television station KCTS.
The remaining P-I employees say they know what they're up against.
"Seattlepi.com will continue to cover city hall, crime, courts, real estate, development, education, transportation and more," executive producer Michelle Nicolosi wrote in a letter to readers. "I hope you'll pardon our dust for the next few weeks as we launch our new digital news and information Web site."
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Comma. Wednesday 3/18
First comma exercise. http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/sentences/fragments01.htm
Second comma exercise.
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/grammar/comma/seriescomma01.htm
Second comma exercise.
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/grammar/comma/seriescomma01.htm
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Today's task - Tuesday March 17th.
The hyphen.
We all overuse it, so today we'll work on understanding the correct use of it!
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/hyphens_all.htm
We all overuse it, so today we'll work on understanding the correct use of it!
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/hyphens_all.htm
Friday, March 13, 2009
The First Amendment
"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."
* Free exercise of religion
* Freedom of speech
* Freedom of the Press
* Freedom to peaceably assembly
* Right to petition
Step 1. Select one of the five freedoms
Step 2. Write what you think this particular freedom means, and provide examples
Step 3. Explain to class.
* Free exercise of religion
* Freedom of speech
* Freedom of the Press
* Freedom to peaceably assembly
* Right to petition
Step 1. Select one of the five freedoms
Step 2. Write what you think this particular freedom means, and provide examples
Step 3. Explain to class.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Today's task - Starting our newspaper.
Go here, click the link to the 'primer' and read pages 3-5 and 7-8.
Then visit these high school newspapers websites to answer the questions on the board.
The HiLite
StogaNews
The Falcon
Mr. S
Then visit these high school newspapers websites to answer the questions on the board.
The HiLite
StogaNews
The Falcon
Mr. S
Monday, March 9, 2009
Newsworthy Qualities
Newsworthy Qualities
• Prominence: How well known are the people involved in the story? If the people involved are well known to local readers, or are well known on a national level, readers will be more interested in the news. Think about how things celebrities do are often big news, but if you or your neighbors did the same thing it probably wouldn't be news at all. That’s prominence at work.
• Proximity: Location, location, location. If the event is happening close by, it will impact local readers more than if it is happening across town, or across the world. Watch a local newscast when a tragedy or disaster strikes. Chances are they'll mention if any local people were killed or injured. That’s proximity.
• Timeliness: If something is happening NOW, it has more impact than something that happened yesterday or last week. No one wants to read old news, so start off with the newest development to keep readers interested.
• Oddity/Uniqueness: Think Weekly World News and Ripley's Believe it or Not. If something is unusual, the oddity alone can make it newsworthy, because people want to know why it has happened.
• Consequence: An event or decision with consequence is one that will affect readers' lives in some way. The bigger the impact, the more readers will want to know about it. That's why big businesses laying off workers, construction projects that will cause detours and traffic slowdowns, distracted driving laws, and food recalls are news -- they will make a difference in people's lives, and they need to know how they will be affected.
• Human interest: Human-interest stories appeal to reader's emotions. They may make a reader happy, nostalgic, sad, angry or sympathetic.
• Prominence: How well known are the people involved in the story? If the people involved are well known to local readers, or are well known on a national level, readers will be more interested in the news. Think about how things celebrities do are often big news, but if you or your neighbors did the same thing it probably wouldn't be news at all. That’s prominence at work.
• Proximity: Location, location, location. If the event is happening close by, it will impact local readers more than if it is happening across town, or across the world. Watch a local newscast when a tragedy or disaster strikes. Chances are they'll mention if any local people were killed or injured. That’s proximity.
• Timeliness: If something is happening NOW, it has more impact than something that happened yesterday or last week. No one wants to read old news, so start off with the newest development to keep readers interested.
• Oddity/Uniqueness: Think Weekly World News and Ripley's Believe it or Not. If something is unusual, the oddity alone can make it newsworthy, because people want to know why it has happened.
• Consequence: An event or decision with consequence is one that will affect readers' lives in some way. The bigger the impact, the more readers will want to know about it. That's why big businesses laying off workers, construction projects that will cause detours and traffic slowdowns, distracted driving laws, and food recalls are news -- they will make a difference in people's lives, and they need to know how they will be affected.
• Human interest: Human-interest stories appeal to reader's emotions. They may make a reader happy, nostalgic, sad, angry or sympathetic.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thursday's Do Now
Subject verb agreement.
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/subjectverb/subjectverb_01.htm
When you get to screen and it asks you to input an email address please put mine in. asherwood@schools.nyc.gov
Mr. S
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/subjectverb/subjectverb_01.htm
When you get to screen and it asks you to input an email address please put mine in. asherwood@schools.nyc.gov
Mr. S
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
March 3rd - Punctuation for News stories.
Go here and take the quiz. Remember to write down the rules for incorrect answers
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/grammar/punct1.htm
Mr. S
http://www.newsroom101.com/NR_exercises/grammar/punct1.htm
Mr. S
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