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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
 http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Cours
es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist
ory.html
Journalists Code of Ethics
 http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Ethics
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Libel
Slander
Bias
Protecting Sources
Respecting Privacy
Changes in journalism
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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 revenues down
 Budget cuts
 One paper cities, as opposed to 2-3
 Can newspapers survive?
Even The Spoke is
reacting
 www.stoganews.com
Citizen Journalism
 Everyone can be a journalist
 Flip cams
 Smart phones
 Digitalized media
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_FsY
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
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Instant, raw, unedited and uncensored
Self-publishing
Sometimes shocking
Biased
Free
Credibility questionable; consider the
source
Digitalized Journalism
 Many news sources are known for their
online presence:
 Huffington Post
 Slate
 Traditional to digital: cnn.com, msnbc.com,
etc.
Instant News
 Twitter
 Google Alerts
 RSS feeds
At what cost?
Other types:
Photojournalism
 Pictures that tell stories
Photojournalism
Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism:
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2011Breaking-News-Photography
Other types: documentary
 A new form of investigative journalism
 Activism
 More prominent as journalism since
advent of CNN type “snippet” news
Homework
 Find an article online about one of the
following topics:
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Embedded journalists
Blogs and journalism
Citizen journalism
Ethics in journalism
Another media related current event
 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)