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[9.2b.1a] Unit: Analyzing newspapers

[9.2b.2] On the following PBS site, Jeff Mermelstein, an award-winning photographer shares his thoughts on photojournalism, particularly photos he took of Ground Zero that appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere.

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[9.2b.5] Students could go on the Newseum site of daily front pages from 193 papers from 27 countries and could compare differences in newspapers’ or websites’ uses of picture sizes, organization of sections, uses of certain fonts/typeface, the number of columns, mastheads, headlines, graphs, charts, and ads.

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[9.2b.6c] Society for News Design

[9.2b.6c] Society of Publication Designers

[9.2b.6d] Poynter Online's Design/Graphics Resources

For further reading:

Newton, J. H. (2001). The burden of visual truth: The role of photojournalism in mediating reality. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

[9.2b.7] Essay: News as narrative/uses of narrative form

For newspaper editorials:

[9.2b.8] Headlinespot.com: Opinion/Editorials
[9.2b.9] Toad.net: Websites for Journalists
[9.2b.10]  Editorials, opinions, commentaries
[9.2b.11] Editor and Publisher Magazine: one of nation’s oldest journals covering issues of the news

[9.2b.10] Webquest: writing editorials on the role of imperialism in Africa

[9.2b.11] Webquest: creating a newspaper on the Protestant Reformation
“You Be the Editor:” making editorial decisions about specific stories.

Examples of political cartoons:

[9.2b.12] Slate: Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index
[9.2b.13] The New York Times cartoons
[9.2b.14] Cartoonweb.com
[9.2b.15] Mark Fiore's Animated Political Cartoons
[9.2b.16] Politicalcartoons.com

[9.2b.16a] NewsMax Political Cartoons Links: This site offers a wide list of links, arranged by artist, to recent political cartoons
[9.2b.16b] King Features Editorial Cartoons
[9.2b.16c] Jim Zwick: Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
[9.2b.16d] Time Magazine cartoons of the week

[9.2b.17] Click here for a Webquest analysis of news coverage of different perspectives on the Arab/Israeli conflict.

[9.2b.18] Students could study uses of language by creating their own parody of news articles similar to those found in The Onion, a parody of current news coverage.

For rhetorical analysis methods in analyzing the news:

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[9.2b.20] Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal
[9.2b.21] Traci's 23rd List of Ten

[9.2b.22] Click here for resources on feminist rhetorical analysis.

[9.2b.23] News Watch: critiques of the news

[9.2b.24] Media Matters: critiques of the news

[9.2b.25] Media Channel: global news analysis

[9.2b.26] Mark Jurkowitz.  The Emerging Mediascape.  Laments the lack of fact-based reporting given the increase in sensationalized “mega-stories”

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[9.2b.28] Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly: articles

[9.2b.29] Jideas: | Department of Journalism: Ball State University

[9.2b.30] JPROF.com

[9.2b.31] Jteacher.com