Monday, April 25, 2011

hard news notes

plus or minus 600 words.
atrts with a summery lead, when ,where, why, how, who, what
clean uncluttered

hleps weave comments into coherent poem
vsualization, begining should be the facts.

homework storey topic: driving habbits of high schoolers

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?
speech, press, assembly, religion, protest

2. What is the Tinker Standard?
-student speech cannot be cencored as long as it does not " materially disrupt classwork or involve substancial disorder or invasion of the rights of others"
- fisrt court case that was in favor of students

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
-because school officials have an " interest in teaching students the boudries of socially appropriate behaviors,"
-they can censor student speech that is vulgar or indecent, even if it does not cause a material or substancial disruption.

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
-censorship of school  sponsored student expression is permissible when school officials can show that it is "reasonably related to legimate pedagogical concerns"

5. What is the Frederick Standard?
- jan. 2002 olimpic torch travels throught town
-principle morise cancells school
-If you are in a school authorized field trip you are still under the schools jurisdiction.

6. What is the definition of libel?

-false statements of fact about a person that are printed, broadcast or otherwise communicated to others.
-hurts someones reputation
-published
-false                    ?

Monday, April 18, 2011

Definition:
Define “Journalism” in 1-3 sentences.
telling of current events that are news worthy through writing, news paper, magazine, and internet.


List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.

TITLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
1. timliness- current stuff that just hapenned.

2. prominence- things we care about, famous people.


3. proximity- close by.

4. significance - larger the event and more people that are impacted the more significant the event is.

5. unussualness- we care about thing that dont happen much, out of the ordinary.

6. human intrest- feel good stories, things that make you feel uplifted.




What are the advantages of print journalism?
1.stories go into detail.

2.you conrol what you read and how much you read.

3.can physically take it where ever you want


What are the advantages of broadcast journalism?

1.much more current.

2.you can watch, listen, and witness live videos of whats going on.

3.you can watch it where ever there is a tv.


Why has online journalism (convergent media) become so popular
combining the two(print, broadcast) to get the best of both worlds.