February 6-9, 2018
Feb. 6
Watch each video on this website https://studentreportinglabs.org/tutorials/
https://studentreportinglabs.org/srl-video-tutorial-series/
What could we be doing differently with the Jag Report. Write 3 paragraphs detailing how we can change the Jag Report. How can we make it better?
https://studentreportinglabs.org/srl-video-tutorial-series/
What could we be doing differently with the Jag Report. Write 3 paragraphs detailing how we can change the Jag Report. How can we make it better?
Feb. 7-9
The worksheet that's on my desk is the assignment. It is due at the end of the hour. Work alone unless it tells you otherwise.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
~Oscar Wilde
Journalists work in many areas of life, finding and presenting information. You as a journalist must report the facts correctly. Acting ethically and responsibly, you as a reporter must paint an accurate version of the truth. News is never reported without human reactions that follow.
Our goal is to print a newspaper each month and produce an end of the year yearbook to celebrate the 2015-2016 school year. We will also create an online publication for the Jaguar Tribune.
I look forward to an exciting rest of the school year.
Ms. Butler
Our goal is to print a newspaper each month and produce an end of the year yearbook to celebrate the 2015-2016 school year. We will also create an online publication for the Jaguar Tribune.
I look forward to an exciting rest of the school year.
Ms. Butler
ProceduresReporter’s notebook
You will keep a reporter’s notebook or a spiral notebook for observations, research, and interviews. This must be bound paper. Loose-leaf paper is not allowed. Turning In Work You will be required to have an e-mail account and upload work to Google Documents (G-mail preferred). Files should be labeled with student’s last name, first initial, underscore, and name of assignment (ex: WILSONR_activity4). Your article It is your responsibility to complete your assigned article and submit it to the newspaper. If you are absent, you need to contact your Editor and email your article to them if it is deadline time. Failure to do so will result in you sitting out of the next issue of the newspaper. Jaguar Tribune You will be expected to make contributions to the class newspaper, which is distributed to the student body. Therefore, you will have deadlines to meet, and your classmates will be relying on your work – be responsible. You will also be expected to assist with generating advertising and funding. You also may be creating videos, writing, revising and editing articles, taking pictures, drawing cartoons, writing headlines, designing pages, or working on the Web site. |
Expectations1. Respect yourself and show respect to others by taking responsibility for your actions and using good judgment. 2. Come to class prepared and on time. Bring pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, homework, and/or any other requested materials. 3. Do not talk while Ms. Butler is teaching or while others are presenting. Raise your hand if you have questions. 4. Be ready to learn and be open to ideas different from your own. Create a positive environment. 5. Follow guidelines as listed in the student conduct handbook. Consequences1. Violating the expectations will result in a personal conference with me. Repeated violations will result in you being asked to leave the newspaper staff.
2. Cheating, plagiarizing, copying work, and fabricating interviews presumed to be real will not be tolerated. These violations will result in your immediate removal from the newspaper staff. 3. This is a job. You are required to be on time and ready to work. Please refrain from playing and holding personal conversations when you should be working. We don't have time to waste. 4. If you feel you can't be professional and perform your job, please let me or the Editor know immediately. We all have bad days, but it's not fair to take our frustrations out on each other. ObjectivesAfter completing this course successfully, students will be able to do the following: 1. Recognize that journalistic writing has a variety of purposes and functions. 2. Read, interpret, and respond to varied media. 3. Compose headlines, biographies, news and sports stories, features, and editorials. 4. Appreciate the principles of layout and design. 5. Use technology for obtaining and reporting, and disseminating information. 6. Collaborate with classmates by sharing ideas and insights productively and respectfully, using critical thinking skills to make decisions and solve problems. 7. Appreciate the importance of the First Amendment and understand how it applies to student journalists and publications. 8. Understand that journalists have ethical, social, and moral responsibilities regarding what they disseminate. 9. Understand composition of photos and issues regarding their use. 10. Know the history of journalism and its role in the new technology age. |
Journalism apps for the iPad, iPodIf you are interested in reading some great news articles or viewing powerful pictures and you own an iPad or an iPod, then check out the following apps.
AP News –(free) — iPad, iPod — I have an iPad, and I must say, I think the app is better on this device! You have the option to easily view stories, pictures, and videos on a decent-size screen. Guardian Eyewitness — (free) — iPad — There are tons of beautiful images on this site, complete with photo captions and a note from the photographer on how the image was captured. CNN — (free) — iPad, iPod — This is a photo- and video-friendly version of the online site. If you don’t watch CNN on TV, you can view stories from around the world using this site. The Daily — (free for a limited time) — iPad — The layout of this app is fantastic and user-friendly with interactive graphics, pictures, and videos. They have great examples of what news layout should look like. |
Roles and ResponsibilitiesReporters
Gather information and present it in a written or spoken form in news stories, feature articles or documentaries. Reporters may work on the staff of news organisations, but may also work freelance, writing stories for whoever pays them. General reporters cover all sorts of news stories, but some journalists specialize in certain areas such as reporting sport, politics or agriculture. Sub-editors Take the stories written by reporters and put them into a form which suits the special needs of their particular newspaper, magazine, bulletin or web page. Sub-editors do not usually gather information themselves. Their job is to concentrate on how the story can best be presented to their audience. They are often called subs. The person in charge of them is called the chief sub-editor, usually shortened to chief sub. Photojournalists Use photographs to tell the news. They either cover events with a reporter, taking photographs to illustrate the written story, or attend news events on their own, presenting both the pictures and a story or caption. The editor Usually the person who makes the final decision about what is included in the newspaper, magazine or news bulletins. He or she is responsible for all the content and all the journalists. Editors may have deputies and assistants to help them. The news editor The person in charge of the news journalists. In small organizations, the news editor may make all the decisions about what stories to cover and who will do the work. In larger organizations, the news editor may have a deputy, often called the chief of staff, whose special job is to assign reporters to the stories selected. Feature writers Work for newspapers and magazines, writing longer stories which usually give background to the news. In small organizations the reporters themselves will write feature articles. The person in charge of features is usually called the features editor. Larger radio or television stations may have specialist staff producing current affairs programs - the broadcasting equivalent of the feature article. The person in charge of producing a particular current affairs program is usually called the producer and the person in charge of all the programs in that series is called the executive producer or EP. Specialist writers May be employed to produce personal commentary columns or reviews of things such as books, films, art or performances. They are usually selected for their knowledge about certain subjects or their ability to write well. Again, small organisations may use general reporters for some or all of these tasks. There are many other jobs which can be done by journalists. It is a career with many opportunities. |
Inverted Pyramid Checklist
When you write an inverted pyramid news story, use the following checklist to make sure that you have done it correctly.
Information should be presented in descending order of importance.
Leads
Always. Check numbers, dates, locations, titles, etc.
Check the following
Wordiness -- have you checked for too much verbiage, redundancies, unnecessary repetitions, etc.
Name, title -- When you put the title before a name, do not separate them with commas, such as
(WRONG): Game warden, Brad Fisher, arrested the trespassers.
When the name comes before the title, the title should be set off by commas.
Brad Fisher, the game warden, arrested the trespassers.
Transitions -- use them to tie your paragraphs together. Don’t jump from one subject to another in a new paragraph without giving the reader some warning.
Don’t copy the wording of the information sheet.
Names -- check them once more to make sure they are spelled correctly.
The errors above are some of the most common that beginning writing students make in writing inverted pyramid news stories. Get into the habit of checking them on the story assignments that you get in your lab.
Remember:
• The most important facts are reported first.
• Other important facts follow.
• The least important facts go toward the end and can be cut/deleted.
Answer these questions in your notebook and put the date on your paper:
Information should be presented in descending order of importance.
Leads
- one sentence
- 30-35 words maximum
- lead tells the most important information in the story and gives specific facts
- expand or develop some idea introduced in the lead
- should not drop the story into a chronological narrative
- All major information should be attributed unless it is commonly known or unless the information itself strongly implies the source.
- Don’t dump a string of direct quotations on the reader.
- Direct quotations should be no more than two sentences long.
- Direct quotations and their attribution should be punctuated properly. Here’s an example:
“John did not go with her,” he said. - Elements of a direct quotation should be in the proper sequence, as in the example above:direct quote, speaker, verb.
Always. Check numbers, dates, locations, titles, etc.
Check the following
- pronoun-antecedent agreement
- it, its, it’s
- “it is . . .”, “there is . . .”, “there are . . .” structures; avoid these. They are passive and vague.
- Use the past tense, not the present.
- Comma splice or run-on sentence, such as
He picked up the ball, he ran down the field.
Sally does not know where he is he is not here.
These are grammatically incorrect. - Plurals -- don’t make them by using an “apostrophe s”.
Wordiness -- have you checked for too much verbiage, redundancies, unnecessary repetitions, etc.
Name, title -- When you put the title before a name, do not separate them with commas, such as
(WRONG): Game warden, Brad Fisher, arrested the trespassers.
When the name comes before the title, the title should be set off by commas.
Brad Fisher, the game warden, arrested the trespassers.
Transitions -- use them to tie your paragraphs together. Don’t jump from one subject to another in a new paragraph without giving the reader some warning.
Don’t copy the wording of the information sheet.
Names -- check them once more to make sure they are spelled correctly.
The errors above are some of the most common that beginning writing students make in writing inverted pyramid news stories. Get into the habit of checking them on the story assignments that you get in your lab.
Remember:
• The most important facts are reported first.
• Other important facts follow.
• The least important facts go toward the end and can be cut/deleted.
Answer these questions in your notebook and put the date on your paper:
- What are the benefits to using this format?
- What are its disadvantages?
- Should print newspapers, with space restrictions, continue to use this format?
- The Internet has unlimited publishing space. With more stories appearing online, is the inverted pyramid format still a necessity? Why or why not?
The LeadBasic Types of Leads:
Summary Lead
It answers the five Ws and one H. The story is presented using the inverted pyramid form where the most important data are in the first and second paragraph. This is used in straight news. Summary Lead Example The U.S. Postal Service could lose up to $10 billion and have little more than a week’s worth of money left in the bank when its fiscal year ends Sept. 30, the nation’s top postmaster will tell Congress on Tuesday. Who (what): U.S. Postal Service What: lose $10 billion Where: Congress When: Tuesday How: not generating enough $$$$ Why: economy, competition Blind Lead
second or third paragraph.
Example Miami’s city clerk received approval Tuesday for purchase of a new $225,000 computer for City Hall. Donna Williams said the computer will be used for all city budgeting and financial planning. |
The Delayed Lead
Example Last summer, students aged 7-13 spent on average seven hours a week playing video games in shopping arcades or on home computers. But this fall, those same students may spend twice that much time playing video games that teach math and physics. It's part of a new free online education program for grades K-12. The interactive teaching games, available at no cost to school systems nationwide, are designed to make learning fun. (nut graph paragraph) Little person, Big picture
Example Janet Laitis leaned on a chain-link fence in her front yard and pointed to the houses on her block that lenders have seized in just the past two weeks. "There. There. There," said Laitis, 70, pointing across the street, down the street and then to the modest ranch house next door. "This neighborhood is deteriorating before my eyes." Within a square mile of Laitis's Dearborn Heights house in this bedroom community outside Detroit, more than half the 96 houses on the market are foreclosed properties. The situation is not uncommon in pockets of the industrial Midwest, where a record number of people are missing their mortgage payments and losing their homes. While lax lending policies have been blamed for the unfolding home-mortgage crisis across the country, the distress in the Midwest has been exacerbated by fundamental problems with the economy. |
Today's Front Pages-This handy "Newseum" site provides daily links to the front pages of several newspapers around the country.
Journalism.org- A site devoted to advancing excellence in the journalism profession.
Journalism Organizations
Studentpress.org- A directory of links and contact information for resources and organizations of interest to student journalists.
Yearbook Information
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