Last week we looked at journalism in the print age. Today, we will begin our movement into the modern electronic era of journalism.
Exercise One -- We ended last week with a study of the Inverted Pyramid. I mentioned this was the technique developed in the Civil War for opening stories, and it is still used today. Go to the Washington Post home page -- www.washingtonpost.com and look at the story by Peter Wallstein titled, "Obama Prepares for Final Push on Syria Strike."
-- On your blog page, in an entry titled "the Inverted pyramid, Sept. 9th" list which of the 5 Ws and an H (who, what, when, where, why and how) are included in Wallsten's lead or lede.
-- Write an inverted pyramid lead about your preparations for school this morning. It should be one sentence and have as many of the 5Ws and the H as you need to make your point.
Exercise Two
Open your slide show which we put together last week. It has slides on themes --
1. Technology
2. media Law
3. Social groups
4. The audience -- it's literay
5. The style of journalism
Open this slide show your browser. it's the one we have been using.
http://www.slideshare.net/cubreporters/journalism-history
Go through the next ten slides, which cover objectivity, photojournalism, yellow journalism, comic strips and stunt journalism.
Add these topics to the appropriate slides you have already created. Where would they go?
We will review these together. and introduce professional and tabloid journalism
Exercise 3 -- Open a slide, and create a modern newspaper section. What section do you choose?
Then, in a separate slide, create a page for a modern tabloid. I will show you an English one, which has high circulation.
What is an American tabloid? Does it publish every day? Every week, or every month? Can you think of an online tabloid?
Exercise One -- We ended last week with a study of the Inverted Pyramid. I mentioned this was the technique developed in the Civil War for opening stories, and it is still used today. Go to the Washington Post home page -- www.washingtonpost.com and look at the story by Peter Wallstein titled, "Obama Prepares for Final Push on Syria Strike."
-- On your blog page, in an entry titled "the Inverted pyramid, Sept. 9th" list which of the 5 Ws and an H (who, what, when, where, why and how) are included in Wallsten's lead or lede.
-- Write an inverted pyramid lead about your preparations for school this morning. It should be one sentence and have as many of the 5Ws and the H as you need to make your point.
Exercise Two
Open your slide show which we put together last week. It has slides on themes --
1. Technology
2. media Law
3. Social groups
4. The audience -- it's literay
5. The style of journalism
Open this slide show your browser. it's the one we have been using.
http://www.slideshare.net/cubreporters/journalism-history
Go through the next ten slides, which cover objectivity, photojournalism, yellow journalism, comic strips and stunt journalism.
Add these topics to the appropriate slides you have already created. Where would they go?
We will review these together. and introduce professional and tabloid journalism
Exercise 3 -- Open a slide, and create a modern newspaper section. What section do you choose?
Then, in a separate slide, create a page for a modern tabloid. I will show you an English one, which has high circulation.
What is an American tabloid? Does it publish every day? Every week, or every month? Can you think of an online tabloid?