The American Society of Newspaper Editors asked high school journalism instructors from around the country to prepare lesson plans for a variety of topics suitable for journalism classes — from news writing and editing to journalistic ethics and bias. The lessons are clearly designed for classes of American teens, but some of the ideas and classroom activities…
An extensive and detailed guide for educators on investigative journalism from the people who produce the show seen on PBS called Exposé, America’s Investigative Reports. It includes links to useful pieces by professionals about selecting stories, conducting interviews, locating documents and packaging stories.
They are a challenge every journalism educator faces at some point — students who cut and paste material from stories on the Internet; fabricate quotes; or pad bibliographies and source lists. In this thoughtful piece, Alex Gillis, a journalism instructor at Ryerson, describes his first experience with cheating students and what he learned from it. He outlines some of the surprising…
“On many days the newsprint front page tastes of already chewed gum,” says Jack Shafer, in a Slate column reflecting on how his news consumption has shifted to the Internet. It’s an icky comparison but many of us will recognize the reality that print is already old when it rolls off the press. It’s also…
Sylvio Le Blanc, Montréal J’espère que des étudiants en journalisme seront bientôt à pied d’oeuvre, car il serait intéressant de comparer la production des journalistes du Journal de Québec (qui appartient au géant Quebecor) à celle des mêmes, en lock-out depuis avril, de MédiaMatinQuébec.
This website includes links to a few short, effective tutorials about such things as using RSS readers, DIGG basics, blogging and alerts that online journalism students are bound to find useful as part of any lesson on new online tools. They are produced by an online marketing firm and public relations firm, but don’t let that stop you…
Richard Therrien, Le Soleil Deux points ressortent du lancement d’automne du service de l’information de Radio-Canada et de RDI d’hier: on multiplie les débats, et on augmente la présence de l’actualité internationale à l’antenne. Le directeur général de l’information, Alain Saulnier, veut diversifier le contenu. « Pendant que les autres médias enfoncent toujours le même…
If you are teaching a journalism course about blogs, or using blogs, you may find this list by Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU helpful. It is an initital list of blog postings (with links) that have revealed information that served the public good before the information appeared in the mainstream media. He has invited others to send…
An instructor who took on the challenge of teaching a senior workshop in online journalism at a university in Texas outlines how he tried to ensure the focus remained on journalism and not skills training and reflects on the lessons he learned.
If you are looking for exercises to help students learn to write effective headlines, you may find this site helpful. It’s an online interactive workshop for which copy editors have submitted stories. You read the story, write a headline in the space provided and then click to find out what the pros wrote, and then…