Goals for Understanding:
- What are sources of news?
- What is news?
- What are the elements of news?
- What is the language of the journalism profession?
- Why is it important to use newspaper terminology?
- What factors determine how articles are placed on the front page?
- Does the placement of a story affect the reader's response to it?
- In addition to news stories, what other information is included on the front page?
- What is the significance of placement?
Activites
Day 1: Definitions and Sources of News
- Motivational Activity: Each day people throughout the world depend on newspapers, television, radio news, and personal interactions to keep up with global, national, regional, and local events. Consider your own news sources. How do you learn about what is happening? Complete Handout 1: My Personal News Sources.
- Partner
share of results followed by class discussion about various
sources of news used by students. Additional questions to
consider:
- Which of the sources is most accurate/reliable?
- Which is most entertaining?
- Why are people interested in getting news?
- Pose question: What is news? Create a definition. Brainstorm and chart ideas on board.
- Read and discuss
- Handout 2: What is News? Reinforce/expandstudent suggested definitions. Continue discussion with News Elements: Concepts that Make News News (adapted from ForJournalism Teachers Only)
- For homework, complete Handout 3: What is News?Assignment adapted from Making News: An Introduction to Journalism by John R. Harrold and Lois A. Stanciak
The quote basically explains how, as our news/information is written down, it will be history for our new coming generations.
ReplyDeleteTo me, this quote says that the things that are recorded in journalism are a preview of what will remembered in the future about the time period we are living in. I think it speaks a lot to what we find important and to the values of modern day human culture. The things that we think are important today, may not be remembered by the people of tomorrow.
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ReplyDelete"The first rough draft of history."
Journalism is what informs every one about what is happening at the moment. Journalists travel and collect information to write about that will eventually be documented and part of a history book in the future.
I think that when someone says that journalism is the first rough draft of history, it means that it is someones first thoughts on important news. Its basically a glimpse of things before they change or advance.
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ReplyDeleteI think that this is referring to the fact that recorded history is not an unedited first-hand account, but journalism is. Over time, what journalists wrote is passed around and edited for a long time before it is recorded as factual history.
It means that history is liable to change over time. It can be changed and distorted at times and can be 1984-esque at times. Such as the Battle of Thermopylae, where instead of 300 Spartans there were 3,000 soldiers, consisting of members of the different city-state armies. Thus history can be crafted by people.
ReplyDeleteThis quote means that 'news' is the raw words that people write, that it IS history. It is unedited and not molded by abstract ideas like metaphor and simile, just the things that happen. Also, that history will change (like a rough draft does) and that rumors will be corrected.
ReplyDeleteI had a better explanation and interpretation, but Blogger messed up on me.
ReplyDeleteI think that the quote means that journalism is the first step for creating history, because their is no history without news.
ReplyDelete"Journalism is the first rough draft of history..." This quote means to me that journalism basically is about writing important stuff, ideas, and learning's about historic events or recent things that have happened which eventually was remembered and known as history. For example, we're writing down stuff years from now other will read...
ReplyDeleteI think that it means that journalism creates the start of bigger news. It emphasizes how information is going to be told.
ReplyDeleteI think it will be important because without us writing things down there would only be peoples opinions about what happened in the past. these articles will also show how people thought and reacted to certain situations in different time periods.
ReplyDelete"Journalism is the first rough draft of history" means that we look back on the newspapers, the TV broadcasts and even the old radio broadcasts to see and feel what people thought and felt throughout history. Journalism can be wrong but its all we have from past generations.
ReplyDelete-Amelia Carter