Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Miss Representation Review; Investigative Reporting; History of Journalism Project: Day 1

Complete your article review for the documentary: Miss Representation. This is due by the end of class today.

See previous post for details about how to set up and write your review article. 

When you complete your draft, please move on to the following tasks:
  • Read Nellie Bly's 10 Days in a Madhouse. We will discuss this work next class.
Investigative journalism involves researching and reporting a story that someone is trying to hide from the public. Writers often investigate and report information to create change in the world. Investigative reporters are behind many of the changes that we see today in our society due to their reporting the "truth".
  • Choose a topic for your investigative research journalism article/prezi/powerpoint project

Please begin work on the History of News Journalism project.

Sign up on the subject sheet for a topic involving the history of News Journalism.
  • Johannes Gutenberg & the technology of the printing press
  • John Peter Zenger & the New York Weekly Journal
  • Benjamin Franklin & the Saturday Evening Post
  • Penny Presses (Benjamin Day & The Sun; James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald)
  • Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hurst & Yellow Journalism
  • Nellie Bly & Investigative Reporting
  • The Yellow Kid and the rise and role of Comic Strips
  • The invention of Radio & Radio News Broadcasting
  • Orson Welles & the "War of the Worlds" Broadcast
  • History of the Newsreel 
  • The Invention of Television & News Broadcasting
  • Tom Wolfe & New Journalism
  • Hunter S. Thompson & Gonzo Journalism
  • Woodward & Bernstein & the Watergate Scandal
  • Helen Thomas, Judith Miller, Maureen Dowd: 3 Women print journalists
  • Walter Cronkite & CBS
  • Jim Lehrer & PBS
  • Barbara Walters & Katie Couric
  • Wolf Blitzer & Anderson Cooper

1. You should begin the project with research. Take notes as is appropriate on your topic. 
2. Make sure to copy your site or internet address/URL's into your notes. You need to be able to cite the sources you use using MLA format. 
3. As we work on this project, coordinate your notes. Decide how it is to be presented in a Prezi or Powerpoint.
5. Create an outline to make sure you know what you have to cover and what you are covering in the presentation. For help creating an outline, check here.

History of Journalism Project Directions (read carefully):
1. At the end of this project you will need to turn in an outline, a Powerpoint or Prezi presentation (URL or file), a works cited page, and a short reflection.
2. Presentation slides should consist solely of pictures and/or short, short media clips. Keep text to only titles. The details should be delivered by you, the speaker! 
3. You will need to present your Powerpoint or Prezi to the rest of the class. The outline, works cited page, and reflection go to me (and are due when you give your presentation to the class). When presenting your presentation you may use notecards for your topic, but you should know the information you will cover or explain to the rest of the class. 


HOMEWORK: A. Please read the handout "10 Days in a Madhouse". Complete this book by next class.

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