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Blogs

Blogs. How are blogs going? Easier to blog now that you have the “About” section written? Are you enjoying writing your weekly posts now? Did anyone blog about something interesting they would like to share? What about another classmate? Any questions?

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Blogs

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  1. Blogs • How are blogs going? • Easier to blog now that you have the “About” section written? • Are you enjoying writing your weekly posts now? • Did anyone blog about something interesting they would like to share? What about another classmate? • Any questions? • http://jour2601brittany2pm.wordpress.com/ • http://www.theboulderstand.org/

  2. News Discussion • What is the article about? • Why did you choose to discuss this article? • Is there anything you’ve learned from previous classes that you can apply to the article? • Talk about the writing style a little. • What made the article good? What made it bad?

  3. Lifeblood of Democracy Reading • What was the reading about? • Define: • Espionage Act • Sedition Act • Which of these people do you think was most important to journalism? • What were some of the other situations? • Give an example of something that happened recently that was influenced by one of these situations.

  4. Kovach and Rosentstiel Reading • What is the purpose of journalism? • The primary purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with the information they need to be free and self-governing. • Awareness Instinct • Defining Journalism.

  5. Daniel Defoe • “Persons are employed … to haunt coffee houses and thrust themselves into companies where they are not known; or plant themselves at convenient distances to overhear what is said … The same persons hang and loiter about the publick offices like housebreakers, waiting for an interview with some little clerk or a conference with a door keeper in order to come at a little news, or an account of transactions; for which the fee is a shilling, or a pint of wine.” • What does this mean? • Is it accurate in modern society?

  6. Kovach and RosentstielReading Continued • How is journalism changing? • How has technology and new forms of media changed journalism? • Citizen Journalism • http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/09/your-guide-to-citizen-journalism270.html • Dialogue with the Audience • Good? Bad? Both? • http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_21529165/obama-takes-campaign-political-battleground-jefferson-county?source=most_viewed

  7. Discussion Question • http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/at-mercer-university-an-experiment-to-save-local-journalism.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all • What did you think of the article? • Why is it important? • Do you think it will work? • How will this change journalism? • Will it be a positive change?

  8. Can Journalism sustain in the twenty-first century the purpose that forged it in the three and a half centuries that came before?

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