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One—This Week in NewsHounds Online
One—This Week in NewsHounds Online(Aug. 24-29, 2009)
Read . . . . . . . . . . . .
• The Read This First! files.
• The syllabus.
• Today’s WORD on Journalism (you’ll get it by email every day); comments welcome.
• For inspiration, please watch this 5-minute video from Steven Colbert on the unreasonable expectations of professors.... Also see Uncle Jay Explains the News or The Daily Show or The Colbert Report (as often as you need a laugh).
• Newspapers/TV/Online news (every day)
• The syllabus.
• Today’s WORD on Journalism (you’ll get it by email every day); comments welcome.
• For inspiration, please watch this 5-minute video from Steven Colbert on the unreasonable expectations of professors.... Also see Uncle Jay Explains the News or The Daily Show or The Colbert Report (as often as you need a laugh).
• Newspapers/TV/Online news (every day)
File . . . . . . . . . . .
• NewsQuiz: Professor Pease will post the news quiz by Thursday a.m.; you must complete and return it by 9 a.m. Saturday. Click here for directions.
• Interview yourself and do a news story. Post it to the Week 1 NewsTalk discussion page in Blackboard. Feel free to comment on each other’s stories (I will!). EXAMPLE: Go here for my own attempt at doing a story about myself. The goal is to provide both the essential information as well as details that hint at your subject’s (your) character/flavor/fascinating characteristics.
• Basic stuff in any news story:
1. Name
2. Age
3. Status @ USU (major, role, basics)
4. Something interesting: hopes and dreams
5. Quotes. Quotes need to be interesting and pithy. (Ex: “I come from Tooele.” NO! That’s not a good quote. “I once fell out of a plane and landed on a pizza!” YES)
6. Follow-up. If your subject says she fell out of plane, you’d better follow up and ask for and explain the details!
7. Motivations. For this story, about a new(ish) student at USU, you should probably think about motivations—what your subject wants to do when s/he grows up, what excites/scares him/her about being at USU. Why s/he came here....
8. Anything else? What essential things about you haven’t I asked? (In this case, since you’re “interviewing” yourself, you probably have a better idea of these things than you would if you were interviewing a stranger...)
• Interview yourself and do a news story. Post it to the Week 1 NewsTalk discussion page in Blackboard. Feel free to comment on each other’s stories (I will!). EXAMPLE: Go here for my own attempt at doing a story about myself. The goal is to provide both the essential information as well as details that hint at your subject’s (your) character/flavor/fascinating characteristics.
• Basic stuff in any news story:
1. Name
2. Age
3. Status @ USU (major, role, basics)
4. Something interesting: hopes and dreams
5. Quotes. Quotes need to be interesting and pithy. (Ex: “I come from Tooele.” NO! That’s not a good quote. “I once fell out of a plane and landed on a pizza!” YES)
6. Follow-up. If your subject says she fell out of plane, you’d better follow up and ask for and explain the details!
7. Motivations. For this story, about a new(ish) student at USU, you should probably think about motivations—what your subject wants to do when s/he grows up, what excites/scares him/her about being at USU. Why s/he came here....
8. Anything else? What essential things about you haven’t I asked? (In this case, since you’re “interviewing” yourself, you probably have a better idea of these things than you would if you were interviewing a stranger...)
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