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study of the news media as a social phenomenon and of journalism as a
trade covers several areas, including critical appreciation, exploration
of social decision making, inquiry and writing. This week's Hot Topic
looks at reporting and news organisations, offline and online. Also covered
is the news media's sometimes uneasy relationship with advertising, what
advertising seeks to achieve and its methods for achieving this.
NEW ZEALAND CURRICULUM LINKS AT TE KETE IPURANGI
Language and Languages
Social
Studies
NEWSPAPERS, TV STATIONS AND RADIO ONLINE
New Zealand's Newspapers in Education produces activity-based pages for
classroom use (http://www.inl.co.nz/publications/education/index.html).
Major New Zealand papers online include the Herald (http://www.herald.co.nz),
The Christchurch Press (http://www.press.co.nz/),
the Otago Daily Times (http://www.odt.co.nz)
and the InfoTech Weekly (http://www.infotech.co.nz).
Scoop (http://www.scoop.co.nz) is
New Zealand's main free Internet-only news operation.
The School Daily is a web site and email service bringing readers the
latest education news (http://www.theschooldaily.com).
New Zealand Search Co has a directory of this country's online news media
(http://www.newzealandsearch.co.nz/News_Media/).
WRITING ARTICLES AND NEWSPAPER STRUCTURE
Lesson ideas
The New York Times' detailed supplement for educators includes ready-made
plans for teaching activities (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/).
A complement to this activity could be a visit to the official Pulitzer
Prize site (http://www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html).
The "Reading a Newspaper" plan at ask ERIC provides more on analysing
the structure of a story and of the newspaper itself. Students are challenged
to recognise the different parts and purpose of a newspaper and an article
(http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0060.html).
This theme is expanded in the "Organization of a Newspaper and the Parts
of a News Article" plan (http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0051.html).
Media Awareness (a Canadian education site) has the unit "News/Journalism
Across the Media" encourages students to investigate and compare the news
delivered by print and non-print media (http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/newsjour.htm).
More ideas can be found at:
MEDIA CRITICISM AND JOURNALISM REVIEWS
Thinking critically about the media - how to really read the news - is
well catered for on the Internet. The following publications are industry
or academic sites offering informed and vigorous interpretations of how
the media works and what it wants to say.
The American Journalism Review is at http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrtoc.html
and is full of short, readable articles, many of which should spark debate.
Other sources of news media criticism include:
ETHICS
The Index of Journalism Ethics Cases has been created in part to help
teachers explore a variety of ethical problems faced by journalists. These
include privacy, conflict of interest, reporter-source relationships,
and the role of journalists in their communities (http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/Ethics/index.html).
Public Radio Online (United States) has published its ethical guidelines
(http://www.npr.org/inside/styleguide/ethics.htm).
The section includes interesting case studies and mission statement and
serves as a good starting point for classroom discussions.
ADVERTISING
In a similar vein is the American Public Broadcasting Service's multimedia
feature on political campaign advertising. "What emotional buttons are
they trying to push to influence the electorate?" (http://www.pbs.org/pov/ad/index.html).
The Advertising Standards Authority will later this year begin enforcing
a voluntary code of practice for e-commerce companies (http://www.asa.co.nz/codes/codes.htm)
Lesson ideas
The Chilliwack [Canada] Senior Secondary School's "Advertising Analysis
Assignment Lesson Outline" (http://www.chill.org/csss/socials/ad.html)
aims to help "understand the structure of advertisements by examining
the differences between the implicit and explicit messages of advertisements."
The lesson plan "Convince Me!", at Education Place (http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/view/convince.html)
looks at ads that "try to shape opinions and affect behavior".
Other lesson ideas
THE FUTURE
How is the Internet transforming the news media and the way we access
news?
The Online Journalism Review's story "Net Activism Without Borders" outlines
how the instant nature of the Internet has changed news coverage and our
response to news (http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=312).
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