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How has the profession of journalism changed throughout history? A video lesson is used in this lesson plan to explore this very question. An activity will help students compare...
Title: Journalism history: The muckrakers. Description of school, students and class. This unit will be taught to a 9th-through 12th-grade newspaper production class. No journalism class is currently offered, so we devote portions (about 20 to 30 minutes of each 85 minute period) to journalism training.
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- Build Your Own Timeline. Have them add this into their notebook, or just create on paper. Pages 1 & 2. Make a copy of both pages for each student. They are to cutout the timeline and each event.
- mock courtroom. This activity is from the media literacy unit from uscourts.gov. LESSON OUTCOME. “Students will be able to apply the Supreme Court precedent set in Tinker v. Des Moines to a fictional, contemporary scenario.
- Court Cases Mini-Poster. This can be an individual project, or you can break into small groups. Students will make a mini-poster (it can be any size, but I just had them make it on computer paper) with their assigned court case.
- 6 Newsroom heroes, legends and folklore
- 8 The birth of journalism
- 10 News in the19th century
- 12 News in the 20th century
- 14 Today’s changing media landscape
- MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
- HUNTER S. THOMPSON (1937-2005)
- 30 SLANG TERMS FOR “REPORTER”
- FIVE INSPIRATIONAL BOOKS EVERY REPORTER SHOULD READ
- “THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE” by Edna
- CLARK KENT and LOIS LANE BEST NEWSROOM RANT:
- FICTIONAL
- NEWSROOM CHARACTERS
- The birth of journalism
- EXCERPTS from Publick Occurrences, Sept. 25, 1690:
- On war with the Indians (whom Harris calls “miserable Salvages”):
- EXCERPTS from The Massachusetts Spy, May 3, 1775:
- From Thomas’s description of the battle:
- BENNETT
- EXCERPT from The Herald, April 11, 1836:
- Today’s changing media landscape
- AS TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES, NEWS CONSUMPTION CHANGES, TOO
- THREE CRUCIAL QUESTIONS FACING THE NEWS BUSINESS
- How do we keep our audience satisfied?
- How do we generate revenue online?
- CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES
- What would you do?
Highlights from the history of journalism, from Mark Twain and
How newspapers were established in America — and how the fight for a free press led to war.
Mass media dominated city streets, while yellow journalism gave reporters a bad name.
Radio and television threaten the media monopoly newspapers enjoyed for centuries.
The availability of news online has created new opportunities and
Twain (real name: Samuel Clemens) is best known as the humorist who created Tom Sawyer and wrote a classic novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” But Twain honed his craft as a reporter in Nevada and California, writing columns, feature stories and travel pieces that made him popular all across the country.
Where did this influential American novelist develop his straightforward prose style? Covering crimes and fires for The Kansas City Star, where his editors’ admonitions to use short sentences, short paragraphs and vigorous English “were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing,” Hemingway later recalled.
Hey, we didn’t say these were all excellent role models; we just said you should know about them. And for good or bad, every reporter needs to ingest some of Hunter Thompson’s “gonzo journalism,” a wacko blend of satire, profanity and hallucinogenic exaggeration. Beware: This stuff was dangerously excessive and crazily entertaining.
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“ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN” by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward — A gripping tale of politics, scandal, conspiracies, lies and the dogged determination of two heroic reporters. That’s right: heroic. Watching Woodward and Bernstein unravel the threads that lead to Nixon’s downfall is exhilarating. The world needs more gutsy reporters like these guys. ...
Buchanan — If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be a crime reporter in a city full of creeps, crooks and crazies (Miami), the legendary Buchanan will not only show you — she’ll inspire you to start covering cops, too.
“You know what people use these for? They roll them up and swat their puppies for wetting on the rug — they spread them on the floor when they’re painting the walls — they wrap fish in them — shred them up and pack their two-bit china in them when they move — or else they pile up in the garage until an inspector declares them a fire hazard! But thi...
only one doing any actual reporting at that newspaper. And whenever Lois’ nose for news lands her in hot water, Superman (Clark’s other identity) conveniently manages to save her before hundreds of good men all over the world have broken their
she blows her deadline. Ahh, if only it worked that way in real life. . . . LOU GRANT was the ultimate surly, burly, gruff-but-lovable editor. Think you’re smart when it comes to journalism facts and folklore? Prove it. Take this quiz to rate your JQ — your Journalism Quotient.
Every society seeks effective ways to spread new information and gossip. In ancient times, news was scrawled onto clay tablets. In Caesar’s age, Romans read newsletters handwritten by slaves. Wandering minstrels spread news (and the plague) in the Middle Ages. Then came ink on newsprint. Voices on airwaves. Movie newsreels. Cable news networks. And...
On a sex scandal involving the King of France: France is in much trouble (and fear), not only with us but also with his Son, who has revolted against him lately, and has great reason if reports be true, that the Father used to lie with the Sons Wife. On a disease epidemic: The Small-pox which has been raging in Boston, after a manner very Extraordi...
When Capt. Mason was at Fort Real, he cut the faces and ript the bellies of two Indians, and threw a third overboard in the sight of the French, who in-forming the other Indians of it, have in revenge barbarously Butcher’d forty THE STORY OF JOURNALISM 9
Isaiah Thomas launches his eyewitness report on the Battle of Lexington with this: Americans! Forever bear in mind the BATTLE of LEXINGTON! — where British troops, unmolested and unprovoked, wantonly, in a most inhuman manner, fired upon and killed a number of our countrymen, then robbed them of their provisions, ransacked, plundered and burnt thei...
. . . The commanding officer accosted the militia, in words to this effect,“Disperse, you damn’d rebels! Damn you, disperse!” Immediately one or two officers discharged their pistols, which were instantaneously followed by the firing of four or five of the soldiers. . . . They fired on our people as they were dispersing, agreeable to their command...
midcentury, the Herald had become the biggest news-paper in the world due to its enterprising reporting, sensational stories and innovative ideas: interviews, reviews, letters to the editor, money pages, society columns, sports stories and “extra” editions. In Bennett’s words: “It is my passion, my delight, my thought by day and my dream by night,...
When a prostitute known as Helen Jewett was murdered, Bennett visited the crime scene. On the front page of the Herald, he provided a description that enthralled readers and helped usher in a new era of sensational reporting: “Here,” said the Police Officer, “here is the poor creature.” He half uncovered the ghastly corpse. I could scarcely look at...
Online journalism offers new tools, new challenges. If you’re an Indianapolis football fan, you may occasionally wonder: “Is Peyton Manning the greatest quarterback of all time?” To answer that question, The Indianapolis Star created the Manning Meter, a multimedia Web page that includes five photo galleries, a weekly game for kids, Manning’s co...
A hundred years ago, if you wanted news, you had one option: read a newspaper. Fifty years ago, you had three options: read a paper, listen to the radio or watch TV. But if you want news today, it’s right there on your desktop PC. Your wireless laptop. Your smart-phone. Your netbook. And who knows what new high-tech gizmo will make news even more p...
Idealistic journalists often forget that the news business is . . . well, a business. Like any other business, media companies need to make money to survive. And these days, that means finding the answers to three nagging questions:
Consumer habits are evolving. Take radio: Young listeners far prefer filling their iPods with mp3 tunes and podcasts than sitting though radio commercials and chat. And why watch TV shows in real time when you can stream them anytime, or watch YouTube highlights? Why wade through dull, slow-motion, dead-tree newspaper stories when you can zoom thro...
When we say “online news,” you might think of Google News, Yahoo! or your favorite blog. But where do they get their content? From the traditional media — newspapers, mostly. Companies like Google make bazillions by aggregating and redistributing the work of journalists worldwide without actually paying those journalists to produce it. Meanwhile,...
As a reporter, I’m obligated to protect my sources, even if it means going to jail. As a citizen, I’m obligated to honor and obey the legal system and comply with WHICH OF THESE STATEMENTS DO YOU MOST AGREE WITH? CHECK EITHER “A” OR “B”; LEAVE BLANK FOR “NEITHER.” I prefer news that’s presented with an attitude, even if it’s opinionated, because it...
As a reporter, I’m obligated to protect my sources, even if it means going to jail. As a citizen, I’m obligated to honor and obey the legal system and comply with WHICH OF THESE STATEMENTS DO YOU MOST AGREE WITH? CHECK EITHER “A” OR “B”; LEAVE BLANK FOR “NEITHER.” I prefer news that’s presented with an attitude, even if it’s opinionated, because it...
Feb 9, 2021 · Journalism in Action: Civic Engagement and Primary Sources Through Key Moments in History — Explore the history of journalism in the U.S. with this new interactive website by PBS NewsHour...
Students will learn to: . • Use primary and secondary sources, including original artifacts, to discuss the importance of word choice. • Identify the history and development of American journalism through people and events. • Demonstrate an understanding of the diferent forms of media and the diferent types of journalistic writing .
May 24, 2016 · The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to journalism and teach them to blend narrative and informational writing to eventually create their own news stories. The lessons in this series are very loosly based on Writing Pathways by Lucy Caulkins.
