Category: Journalism

Write a true compelling encounter about one person or one group. Must include quotes from an interview and has to be true

I have provided sufficient pages for both journal 1 and 2. Please ensure that you write enough content. There is no need to follow MLA format as this is an informal assignment. You can use journal 1 as a reference to expand on your ideas in journal 2. If you have any questions, please message me.

I have provided sufficient pages for both journal 1 and 2. Please ensure that you write enough content. There is no need to follow MLA format as this is an informal assignment. You can use journal 1 as a reference to expand on your ideas in journal 2. If you have any questions, please message me.

Edit the following document “Meeting Story Package Draft“ with the attached comments and files with suggestions/changes. I am also including a link to the video and links for the dockets the essay is written on for context. Please make sure to include more hyperlinks and quotes that is an important part!
“Hi Amy: This project is evolving nicely. Make sure that you separate your main meeting story from your sidebar — they are two separate stories.
Keep in mind with the inverted pyramid, you don’t need to repeat information. I suggest adding a couple more paragraphs right at the beginning about the Potomac Yards station since that’s the most important news.
I’d suggest adding several hyperlinks to your meeting story, and adding a couple of more quotes to your main meeting story.”
https://alexandria.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=57&clip_id=2991

The topic needs to still be relevant
We are constantly being bombarded with news headlines. The
hectic pace of the 24-hour news cycle fractures all of our attention
spans. Once we’ve read the headline and a few lines into the news
story, we assume that we have the gist of what is going on.
However, that usually couldn’t be farther from the truth.
For every breaking news item that gets published, there are
probably dozens of follow-up articles that could be written about
larger issues connected to it that might either have a huge direct
impact on readers or could, at least, give them a better
understanding of what happened and why. Conversely, as a writer,
you are probably aware of several issues that you know readers
would find important and useful; however, there is nothing in the
current news cycle that you related to a particular issue.
For this assignment, consider the ancient Greek concept of kairos
and the notion of being able to identify the “right time” for an article
to have the greatest impact on readers. In order to “get lucky” with
your kairotic timing, you’ll need to scour publications for current
news stories
that you can use as news “pegs” or “hooks” that you can use to
connect important issues to timely events and conversations. You
can also approach this assignment from the other direction and find
a news story of interest to you and brainstorm issues that are
related to the news event that you can follow up on and write about
that will give readers a deeper understanding of some of these
issues and why they are important.
As you work on this assignment, ask yourself the following
questions:
• Is there an issue that I already know is important that readers
ought to know about? Can I find a news “hook” or “peg” to
help me highlight its importance for readers?
• As I read about current events, are there any issues related to
some of these events that I could research and write about to
enhance readers’ understanding of the causes and
implications of these events?
• Are there any experts or knowledgeable people I can seek out
who can help me make sense of an important issue tied to a
current event?
• What other sources of information are available to me to
enhance my own understanding of this topic so that I can
write about it with authority?
• Have included at least three sources of information in my news
feature article?

Write an Op-Ed with the following instructions. It. has to be an Op-Ed not an ad or note or an essay, it clearly has to be an Op-Ed eith an interesting topic and you need to own the opinion.
It has to be very captivating
900-1200 words
Own the Opinion
Start with a Hook (news related?)
Write in your authentic voice
-no industry speak or jargon
Back it up with sources, stats, quotes
End with a call to action
Topic ideas: ( use any 1 idea)Sports — equal pay, pay in general (Bruck Purdy vs. Joe Burrow)
Influencers — good, bad — is there life after TikTok, how is it that a 19 year-old can make $20MM on our eyeballs and brief engagement
Fashion trends: Ugly is the new trend. Huh? Crocs, really? White sneakers, will they ever go out of style?
Fashion: when, if ever, are dress codes important? Should there be a comeback?
Woke, counter, toxic, culture in general
Sustainability, organic, – real or a PR machine
Disengagement in general and in students/universities
Atrocities and Lies: corporate greed in light of toxic waste and “oops” it spilled. Covering up cancer clusters and more
Prison — where have we come as a society when there is a reality TV show, Out of Lockup
Reality TV in general — why?
Student Debt — does anyone care? Who’s listening? Why is Princeton free and others aren’t? Divided society?
Education today: Are we really at an influx? Could AI be the lever to catapult learning into this century? From blue books (Guttenberg press) to helping students find solutions to real problems (ChaptGPT)?
Mental health — are we doing enough? Who should be doing what and why?
Gun control. Enough said.
War: “what is it good for?” — (that’s a song…)

Journalism, the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through such print and electronic media as newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, webcasts, podcasts, social networking and social media sites, and e-mail as well as through radio, motion pictures, and television. The word journalism was originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, but with the advent of radio, television, and the Internet in the 20th century the use of the term broadened to include all printed and electronic communication dealing with current affairs.
History
The earliest known journalistic product was a news sheet circulated in ancient Rome: the Acta Diurna, said to date from before 59 BCE. The Acta Diurna recorded important daily events such as public speeches. It was published daily and hung in prominent places. In China during the Tang dynasty, a court circular called a bao, or “report,” was issued to government officials. This gazette appeared in various forms and under various names more or less continually to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911. The first regularly published newspapers appeared in German cities and in Antwerp about 1609. The first English newspaper, the Weekly Newes, was published in 1622. One of the first daily newspapers, The Daily Courant, appeared in 1702. At first hindered by government-imposed censorship, taxes, and other restrictions, newspapers in the 18th century came to enjoy the reportorial freedom and indispensable function that they have retained to the present day. The growing demand for newspapers owing to the spread of literacy and the introduction of steam- and then electric-driven presses caused the daily circulation of newspapers to rise from the thousands to the hundreds of thousands and eventually to the millions.
Magazines, which had started in the 17th century as learned journals, began to feature opinion-forming articles on current affairs, such as those in the Tatler (1709–11) and the Spectator (1711–12). Appearing in the 1830s were cheap mass-circulation magazines aimed at a wider and less well-educated public, as well as illustrated and women’s magazines. The cost of large-scale news gathering led to the formation of news agencies, organizations that sold their international journalistic reporting to many different individual newspapers and magazines. The invention of the telegraph and then radio and television brought about a great increase in the speed and timeliness of journalistic activity and, at the same time, provided massive new outlets and audiences for their electronically distributed products. In the late 20th century, satellites and later the Internet were used for the long-distance transmission of journalistic information.
The profession
Journalism in the 20th century was marked by a growing sense of professionalism. There were four important factors in this trend: (1) the increasing organization of working journalists, (2) specialized education for journalism, (3) a growing literature dealing with the history, problems, and techniques of mass communication, and (4) an increasing sense of social responsibility on the part of journalists.
An organization of journalists began as early as 1883, with the foundation of England’s chartered Institute of Journalists. Like the American Newspaper Guild, organized in 1933, and the Fédération Nationale de la Presse Française, the institute functioned as both a trade union and a professional organization. Before the latter part of the 19th century, most journalists learned their craft as apprentices, beginning as copyboys or cub reporters. The first university course in journalism was given at the University of Missouri (Columbia) in 1879–84. In 1912 Columbia University in New York City established the first graduate program in journalism, endowed by a grant from the New York City editor and publisher Joseph Pulitzer. It was recognized that the growing complexity of news reporting and newspaper operation required a great deal of specialized training. Editors also found that in-depth reporting of special types of news, such as political affairs, business, economics, and science, often demanded reporters with education in these areas. The advent of motion pictures, radio, and television as news media called for an ever-increasing battery of new skills and techniques in gathering and presenting the news. By the 1950s, courses in journalism or communications were commonly offered in colleges.
The literature of the subject—which in 1900 was limited to two textbooks, a few collections of lectures and essays, and a small number of histories and biographies—became copious and varied by the late 20th century. It ranged from histories of journalism to texts for reporters and photographers and books of conviction and debate by journalists on journalistic capabilities, methods, and ethics.
Concern for social responsibility in journalism was largely a product of the late 19th and 20th centuries. The earliest newspapers and journals were generally violently partisan in politics and considered that the fulfillment of their social responsibility lay in proselytizing their own party’s position and denouncing that of the opposition. As the reading public grew, however, the newspapers grew in size and wealth and became increasingly independent. Newspapers began to mount their own popular and sensational “crusades” in order to increase their circulation. The culmination of this trend was the competition between two New York City papers, the World and the Journal, in the 1890s (see yellow journalism).
The sense of social responsibility made notable growth as a result of specialized education and widespread discussion of press responsibilities in books and periodicals and at the meetings of the associations. Such reports as that of the Royal Commission on the Press (1949) in Great Britain and the less extensive A Free and Responsible Press (1947) by an unofficial Commission on the Freedom of the Press in the United States did much to stimulate self-examination on the part of practicing journalists.
By the late 20th century, studies showed that journalists as a group were generally idealistic about their role in bringing the facts to the public in an impartial manner. Various societies of journalists issued statements of ethics, of which that of the American Society of Newspaper Editors is perhaps best known.
Present-day journalism
Although the core of journalism has always been the news, the latter word has acquired so many secondary meanings that the term “hard news” gained currency to distinguish items of definite news value from others of marginal significance. This was largely a consequence of the advent of radio and television reporting, which brought news bulletins to the public with a speed that the press could not hope to match. To hold their audience, newspapers provided increasing quantities of interpretive material—articles on the background of the news, personality sketches, and columns of timely comment by writers skilled in presenting opinion in readable form. By the mid-1960s most newspapers, particularly evening and Sunday editions, were relying heavily on magazine techniques, except for their content of “hard news,” where the traditional rule of objectivity still applied. Newsmagazines in much of their reporting were blending news with editorial comment.
Journalism in book form has a short but vivid history. The proliferation of paperback books during the decades after World War II gave impetus to the journalistic book, exemplified by works reporting and analyzing election campaigns, political scandals, and world affairs in general, and the “new journalism” of such authors as Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer.
The 20th century saw a renewal of the strictures and limitations imposed upon the press by governments. In countries with communist governments, the press was owned by the state, and journalists and editors were government employees. Under such a system, the prime function of the press to report the news was combined with the duty to uphold and support the national ideology and the declared goals of the state. This led to a situation in which the positive achievements of communist states were stressed by the media, while their failings were underreported or ignored. This rigorous censorship pervaded journalism in communist countries.
In noncommunist developing countries, the press enjoyed varying degrees of freedom, ranging from the discreet and occasional use of self-censorship on matters embarrassing to the home government to a strict and omnipresent censorship akin to that of communist countries. The press enjoyed the maximum amount of freedom in most English-speaking countries and in the countries of western Europe.
Whereas traditional journalism originated during a time when information was scarce and thus highly in demand, 21st-century journalism faced an information-saturated market in which news had been, to some degree, devalued by its overabundance. Advances such as satellite and digital technology and the Internet made information more plentiful and accessible and thereby stiffened journalistic competition. To meet increasing consumer demand for up-to-the-minute and highly detailed reporting, media outlets developed alternative channels of dissemination, such as online distribution, electronic mailings, and direct interaction with the public via forums, blogs, user-generated content, and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
In the second decade of the 21st century, social media platforms in particular facilitated the spread of politically oriented “fake news,” a kind of disinformation produced by for-profit Web sites posing as legitimate news organizations and designed to attract (and mislead) certain readers by exploiting entrenched partisan biases. During the campaign for the U.S. presidential election of 2016 and after his election as president in that year, Donald J. Trump regularly used the term “fake news” to disparage news reports, including by established and reputable media organizations, that contained negative information about him.

For this part of the project, you’re going to use a major headline/news event from one of the four themes: Ownership of Mass Media Businesses, Sports, Media Violence, or Privacy and do a compare-and-contrast case study. It will require you to view your topic from three different angles: locally, nationally, and globally. Your case study should be written in APA style, have 800 words, and compare and contrast your topic with how it was portrayed from a local, national, and global standpoint.
JUST TO CLARIFY: For this assignment, the local news is where the event took place. For example, the local news coverage for the Columbine school shooting that occurred in 1999 will be Columbine, CO. National news for the event can be any other news coverage that covered the event in the USA including Miami, and the global news will be any country outside of the USA regardless of the native language of the country that covered the event, including Canada, UK, Spain, etc.
Was there a difference with media coverage about your topic in other parts of the world?
Were the reactions from media consumers varied in other parts of the world?
Did different movements happen in other parts of the world based on the topic/event?
What were the similarities?
What were the differences?
DO NOT include the questions within your case study and do not summarize the event.
Directions for Capstone Project Part 2: Case Study (15%):
Word count for the body of the essay: 800. Going under or over the word count will be counted against your overall grade for the assignment.
Times New Roman 12pt. font double-spaced.
Must be written in third person. DO NOT include yourself or your name in the essay.
Needs to be in APA style: A cover page, running header, citations within the body of the essay, and a reference page at the end.

Write a 500 word human interest article based on your interview.
The lede (first paragraph) is the most important element of your story. It has to tell enough of a story to draw the reader in to read it. Here are some rules:
Do not begin with a direct quote.
The lede should be NO MORE than two sentences. One sentence is preferred.
Quote the person twice and no more than three times.
The story does not need a conclusion. A story this short often just ends. One good way to end it is to use a quote from the interview.
Include details and description.
I have attached a copy of a recording of my interview. Please only include the parts that are relevant to make the snapshot profile.
Interview Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19q2HeauBJUo9Xf6gf…
Here is an example: https://neilshurley.com/writing-samples/sample-profile-piece-johnny-ashmore/
You MUST use AP Style.

Write a 500 word human interest article based on your interview.
The lede (first paragraph) is the most important element of your story. It has to tell enough of a story to draw the reader in to read it. Here are some rules:
Do not begin with a direct quote.
The lede should be NO MORE than two sentences. One sentence is preferred.
Quote the person twice and no more than three times.
The story does not need a conclusion. A story this short often just ends. One good way to end it is to use a quote from the interview.
Include details and description.
I have attached a copy of a recording of my interview. Please only include the parts that are relevant to make the snapshot profile.
Interview Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19q2HeauBJUo9Xf6gf…
Here is an example: https://neilshurley.com/writing-samples/sample-profile-piece-johnny-ashmore/
You MUST use AP Style.