1. Journalism Media Literacy Unit Honors Language and Composition

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. History of Journalism  http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Cours es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist ory.html http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Cours es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist ory.html http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Cours es/ResourcesForCourses/JournalismHist ory.html

6. Journalists Code of Ethics  http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

7. Ethics  Libel  Slander  Bias  Protecting Sources  Respecting Privacy

8. Changes in journalism  Trends and statistics  Citizen journalism  Embedded journalists  The Blogosphere  Digital journalism

9. 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?

10. Even The Spoke is reacting  www.stoganews.com www.stoganews.com

11. Citizen Journalism  Everyone can be a journalist  Flip cams  Smart phones  Digitalized media  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_FsY 6ksDzk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_FsY 6ksDzk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_FsY 6ksDzk

12. 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

13. The Blogosphere  Instant, raw, unedited and uncensored  Self-publishing  Sometimes shocking  Biased  Free  Credibility questionable; consider the source

14. Digitalized Journalism  Many news sources are known for their online presence:  Huffington Post  Slate  Traditional to digital: cnn.com, msnbc.com, etc.

15. Instant News  Twitter  Google Alerts  RSS feeds At what cost?

16. Other types: Photojournalism  Pictures that tell stories

17. Photojournalism Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism: http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2011- Breaking-News-Photography http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2011- Breaking-News-Photography

18. Other types: documentary  A new form of investigative journalism  Activism  More prominent as journalism since advent of CNN type “snippet” news

19. Homework  Find an article online about one of the following topics:  Embedded journalists  Blogs and journalism  Citizen journalism  Ethics in journalism  Another media related current event  Be prepared to discuss main points

20. 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)