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Chapter 9 |
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[9.2a] Teaching Analysis of the News |
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Current news events/information sites: |
[9.2a.1] The New York Times Learning Network
[9.2a.2] CNN: For Your Information [ ways of integrating current events into teaching ]
[9.2a.3] USNews Classroom
[9.2a.4] Scholastic News for students (grades 5-8)
[9.2a.5] Newsweek for students
[9.2a.6] Education Time Magazine
[9.2a.7] Education World: Ten activities for teaching with newspapers
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[9.2a.8, 9.2a.9, 9.2a.10] Students should be aware of the range of different types of local newspapers, including local/suburban weekly papers such as those in Minnesota, specialty newspapers such as the Asian-American Press, or college/university papers. |
[9.2a.11] Journalism.org: Tools for Online Journalists |
[9.2a.12] The Poynter Institute: Online journalist |
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Online Journalism Review |
[9.2a.14] Online News Association |
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Online Publishers Association |
[9.2a.16] C-SPAN Classroom site: teaching materials and videos on national news stories
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[9.2a.17] Newsvine: news site in which readers’ voting determines front-page story placements; readers can also contribute their own columns |
[9.2a.18] Journalism.org: The State of the News Media, 2005: consumers have more places to acquire news but fewer stories are being covered and with less depth. |
[9.2a.19] State of the News: 2006 |
- Major newspapers cut reporters: The New York Times: 60; the Los Angeles Times, 85; the San Jose Mercury News, 16%, the Philadelphia Inquirer, 15% (only half as many reporters at the Inquirer covering metropolitan Philadelphia as did in 1980). Time Inc., cut 205 people
- Overall circulation declines and job cuts are about 3% and profit margins are at 20%. Readership is up for many papers.
- Local TV news employ fewer stories that feature in-the-field correspondents
- There is little original reporting associated with news Web sites or blogs
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[9.2a.20] Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: Study conducted in 2005 found that Americans give favorable than unfavorable ratings to their daily newspaper (80%-20%), local TV news (79%-21%), and cable TV news networks (79%-21%), and network TV news (75%-25%). Republicans are more more critical than Democrats of the press. |
[9.2a.21] The Pew Internet and American Life Project: Study of broadband versus dial-up access to online news - 43 percent of broadband users obtain news from the Web compared to 26 percent for dial-up users. They are less likely to tune into local television for news and more like to read national newspapers, although local TV news remains the leading news source. 43% of broadband users view online news as the next leading news source compared to 38% perceiving the newspaper as the leading source; few want to pay for online news. |
[9.2a.22] Rick Edmonds, The Poynter Institute: An Online Rescue for Newpapers? |
[9.2a.23] Online Journalism blog |
[9.2a.24] Teaching Online Journalism blog |
Further Reading: |
Baum, M. A. (2005). Soft news goes to war: Public opinion and American foreign policy in the new media age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. |
Fenton, T. (2005). Bad news: The decline of reporting, the business of news, and the danger to us all. New York: Regan Books. |
Hamilton, J. T. (2006). All the news that's fit to sell: How the market transforms information into news. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press |
Keeble, R. (2005). The newspapers handbook. New York: Routledge. |
Kovach, B., & Rosenstiel, T. (2001). The elements of journalism: What newspeople should know and the public should expect. Pittsburgh: Three Rivers Press. |
Meyer, P. (2004). The vanishing newspaper: Saving journalism in the information age. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. |
Mindich, D. T. Z. (2004). Tuned out: Why Americans under 40 don't follow the news. New York: Oxford University Press. |
Woodward, G. C. (2006). Media and the staging of American politics. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield.
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