Category: Journalism

Imagine college news outlet staff members in Pennsylvania use an online messaging service to communicate story ideas and updates. One staffer sends a message, “I want to write a story about a terrible landlord near campus, the kind of story that will show no one should live in this person’s properties.” Another staffer responds, “That could be an award-winning story.” A third staffer says, “Go for it! Go after the Thishousingstinks.com guy.”
Thishousingstinks.com is a blog that invites people to anonymously post about their experiences renting housing within a mile of the college’s campus. In the past week, a string of anonymous posts have focused on one landlord who rents about three dozen apartments to college students each year.
One comment on Thishousingstinks.com calls the landlord “A fraudulent slumlord.” Another calls the landlord “unscrupulous.” A third says, “My apartment was infested with rats, and the landlord refused to do anything about it.” A fourth post says, “I had to move in the middle of the semester. My bedroom wall was crumbling.”
The landlord, who is a resident of Pennsylvania, responded on the website that the posts were false. The landlord also posted on X, Instagram, and other social media channels, “Thishousingstinks.com is posting lies. This misinformation site needs to be taken down.” He created a website and submitted columns to multiple news outlets to counter what he calls the lies posted on Thishousingstinks.com. And, he offered to help the college create guidelines that could help students determine which housing near campus is likely to be safe and sanitary.
One of the city’s major news outlets recently ran a story about the online feud between the landlord and Thishousingstinks.com. The landlord was quoted as saying, “This misinformation campaign is cruel. These types of lies can ruin people’s lives. Sites like these need to be taken down.” The landlord also was quoted as saying, “I’m a responsible business person actively working to make sure housing for students is safe and sanitary. All landlords need to do this.”
After the major news outlet published that story, a staff member for the college news outlet sent the following online message to the college news staff: “He’s big time now. We have to get him with this story.”
A story writer for the college news outlet wrote a story that paraphrased students’ stories about rat infestations in their apartments, heating systems not working, and landlord refusals to address unsanitary or unsafe conditions.
The story writer for the college news outlet interviewed the landlord, who said, “Those stories are not true. Check with my current tenants. Check with the City Department of Licenses and Inspections and the police. I’ve never had a complaint filed about me or my properties. You need to correct this misinformation.”
The story writer for the college news outlet wrote a compelling story that paraphrased tales of students’ struggles with leaking ceilings, bugs, and rodents in apartments the students said they rented from “the Thishousingstinks.com guy.” The article quoted one student’s assertion that the landlord “had been charged with fraud.” The article also paraphrased another student’s statement that multiple complaints had been filed with the city against the landlord.
After reading a draft of the story, an editor for the college news outlet sent the staff an online message. That message said, “It’s hard to believe this prominent of a property owner could get away with this stuff. Does anyone else have serious doubts about this?” Another staff member responded, “We should make sure they really are talking about this guy. Did anyone check the students’ lease agreements?”
The story writer for the college news outlet, however, didn’t ask to see any of the students’ lease agreements and didn’t check property records for the people who were interviewed. The story writer trusted two of the student sources. The writer knew the third source, who said the landlord had been charged with fraud, lied sometimes, but the writer didn’t see why anyone would lie about a landlord being charged with fraud.
The story writer was careful not to take any of the trusted sources’ comments out of context, but the writer did stretch some of the less trustworthy source’s points. The writer didn’t think anyone would believe that source’s complaints about comments being misconstrued.
The story writer for the college news outlet also didn’t take the landlord’s suggestion to check if there were any police records or department of licenses and inspections complaints about the landlord.
Imagine the college news outlet published the story, and the landlord filed a libel suit against the author. The college news outlet now knows that statements published in the story were false and defamatory and “of and concerning” the landlord. The college news outlet, however, has other questions, and they need your advice.
On your own, independently write a 750-800 word essay that incorporates material from our relevant assigned course content to answer the following questions:
What was the plaintiff status of the landlord at the time of the college news outlet’s publication? Why is that plaintiff status of the landlord?
What level of fault will the landlord have to prove the college news outlet acted with? What is the burden of proof for that level of fault?
Why will or won’t the landlord be able to prove the college news outlet acted with that level of fault according to the proper burden of proof?

Do citizen reporters use social media to report the news diminish the work of professional journalists? How does it impact credibility in the industry, if at all? Please explain your answer by offering at least one example to illustrate your point.
Resources: https://www1.wellesley.edu/sites/default/files/assets/news/pdf-narcotweets-rise-and-fall-of-citizen-reporter.pdf

●The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
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●Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
●Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
●Late submission will NOT be accepted.
●Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
●All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
●Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
●The Assignment`s learning Outcomes:
In the 2nd assignment, the students are required to read thoughtfully the “ Nestlé Waters Unifying real-time visibility across 26 factories” case study , and answer the related questions, upon successful completion of the assignment the student should be able to:
State the importance of standardization and quality standards (CLO2)
Use quality improvement tools and practices for continuous improvement to achieve the organizational change and transformation (CLO3)
Develop analytical skills of identifying pitfalls, or quality concerns through assimilated
and strategic planning. (CLO4)
●Instructions to read the case study:
“ Nestlé Waters Unifying real-time visibility across 26 factories” case study
Access below link to read the case study:
https://www.advantive.com/case-studies/nestle-waters/ “ Nestlé Waters Unifying real-time visibility across 26 factories”
case study
This case study demonstrates the application of change management inside Nestle Waters Company. In addition, it discusses the company need for quality improvement which encouraged its engineers to search for alternative system to collect and analyze their data. Read the case, by using your critical thinking skills answer the following questions: 1-Explain the driven reasons for changing the quality documentation system in the Nestle Waters. (2.5 marks)
2-Outline the change objectives for both Retail Manufacturing and Home and Office Manufacturing units. (2.5 marks)
3-How the InfinityQS® ProFicient™ system can control the operation processes? (2.5 marks)
4-Describe the management role in the change process? (2.5 marks)
Important Notes: –
●For each question, you need to answer not in less than 150 Words.
●Support your answers with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles etc.
●Use APA style for writing references.
Answers:

Do you think social media represents a true public forum for all individuals where speech can be expressed freely without repercussions, particularly for journalists who report on the news through their social media postings?
For example, recently, Elon Musk temporarily suspended the accounts of several reporters from his platform because they violated the platform’s rules banning private jet trackers, which is when reporters share the tracking of private jet’s flight plans, including one that tracked Elon Musk’s private jet.
Does social media have a right to suspend or limit the posts of journalists? Is it comparable to the US government regulating or restricting journalists’ speech? Should the government be allowed to direct social media to suspend or restrict the accounts of journalists for messaging?
When answering these questions, please offer an example to illustrate your point (please do not use the example from above).

School is : UNC Charlotte
https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-features link to UNCC news
This assignment requires you to use what you’ve learned so far to writing a basic hard news story, complete with a headline, byline, lead, and use of inverted pyramid.
For Assignment 2, we will be incorporating all we have learned so far about AP style, grammar, and hard news into your first original, full news story.
You will choose to cover your own campus news event. This can be any topic you’re interested in, as long as it fits the requirements.
Your finished piece should be (1) a hard news story, (2) written in the inverted pyramid, and (3) conform to the specifications of that particular story type (crime, weather, meeting, speech, etc.).
The story you choose to report must pertain to UNC Charlotte as part of a hard news beat. For example, you can write about a sports event happening at UNCC, a meeting or speech you watched on Zoom or attended in person, a recent change to the study abroad program, or a story about a speaker who is coming to the university next month. All reporting/research must be your own and any/all sources must be cited.
Your story should be 250 (minimum) -500 (maximum) words in length and should be formatted as a news story.
EXAMPLES:
Please find examples of hard news stories in your book and in “real” news stories. Examples of reputable hard news sites you can find online for examples include: Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC News, the New Republic, Newsday, BBC, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, The Economist, .
What am I looking for and what will you be graded on?
The lead. Is it in correct form: less than 35 words, 4 W’s, etc.? Does it clearly feature the most important aspect of the story? Is it informative and interesting?
2. The inverted pyramid: Does your story move from most important > least important? Does your writing fit the requirements of hard news in style and tone?
3. Did you incorporate the prompt correctly by including the important information and excluding unneeded information? Did you reword and rewrite? If you did your own research, is it comprehensive and appropriate?
4. Did you use correct grammar, spelling, AP Style and punctuation?
5. Did you demonstrate a grasp of the concepts in the class that pertain to hard news writing?
Role: You are taking on the role of a hard news reporter and journalist.
Audience: Your audience is (option 1) a mass audience or (option 2) readers with proximity to Charlotte/UNCC.
Format: This should be written per the class’ written paper requirements (laid out on the homepage and syllabus), and using AP Style.
Submission: .doc or .docx only.
Rubric
Learning Objective: Demonstrate an ability to write and edit a proper, functional basic hard news story. Demonstrate an understanding of how to incorporate the “research” stage of reporting into the “writing” stage. This will mean incorporating the original reporting you did yourself.
Quality of the writing for this assignment is determined and graded as:
1. The headline and the lead (30%): Written in proper headline form. Written in proper lead form. The lead establishes your angle for the article, which you incorporate throughout the piece.
2. Second Paragraph & Body (45%): Second paragraph supports the lead and follows inverted pyramid. The body is written and edited in inverted pyramid. Maintains a clear focus, which you established in the lead. In option 1, anything not fit for print was edited out of the final piece. In option 2, you demonstrated an ability to report and write in a newsworthy manner. Correct word count. Incorporates and correctly cites sources.
3. Grammar/Style (25%): Sentence structure, spelling and punctuation, proper usage, AP Style.

Select one ethical code from a news/journalist organization that you find compelling. Please provide the citation to your source in your paper.
Select a minimum of three tenements from that code that resonates with you as a journalism/communications major and provide one reason for each on why you believe it is essential and one you would abide by as a journalist.
In addition, while journalists who work for a certain publication or media outlet have to adhere to that organization’s ethical code to remain employed, in your opinion, do you believe that a journalist’s conduct should also be regulated by federal and/or state governments similarly to how attorneys and doctors are regulated such as they must adhere to a set code of conduct to maintain a license to practice law/medicine?
Should there be a national and/or state-specific ethical code for journalists? Why or why not?
Website Link for ethical codes: https://www.uscourts.gov

For this assignment, you will create a Sway presentation. You will start by creating an outline in Word. Both the outline and Sway presentation will be saved to OneDrive and are due this week.
To print a copy of the assignment instructions, please view the attached document.
Instructions: Create an outline in Word comparing what you hoped to learn in this class with what you actually learned in this class. Your outline should contain a minimum of 5 Topics with an average of 3 bullet points for each topic. (You can write more if you choose.)
Then, create a Sway presentation based on your Word outline. Make any additional changes to improve your Sway presentation.
Save both documents to OneDrive. (Sway should be automatic.)
Share the Sway presentation.
Copy the link to the Sway presentation and paste it at the very top of your Word Outline document. Save the Outline document again.
Submit your Outline document (a Word document) for your assignment. You should also provide a link to your Sway presentation.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/events/ignite-2015/brk2104
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/getting-started-with-sway-2076c468-63f4-4a89-ae5f-424796714a8a

I’ve attached the requirements in files and here is the link for the interview recordings needed.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U2Yhi9tUyP…

Step 1: Reflect on the themes/topics/assignments/experiences of SLS 1515 that were most influential or important to you.
Step 2: Choose three to write about.
Step 3: Compose your essay using the outline below.
The essay should be a minimum of 500 words.

Part 1: Introduction
Describe your thoughts and feelings at the beginning of the term.
Introduce the main topics/ideas that you found most influential across the semester.

Part 2: Body
State the 1st theme/topic/idea/experience that was influential.
Support its relevance with specific examples from your academic, professional, or personal experience.
How will it increase your future success?

Part 3: Body
State the 2nd theme/topic/idea/experience that was influential.
Support its relevance with specific examples from your academic, professional, or personal experience.
How will it increase your future success?

Part 4: Body
State the 3rd theme/topic/idea/experience that was influential.
Support its relevance with specific examples from your academic, professional, or personal experience.
How will it increase your future success?

Part 5: Conclusion
Academic and professional success plan.
Describe your plan for achieving academic and professional success.
Summarize how the theme/topic/idea/experiences you’ve written about will help you reach your future goals.
Requirements
• MLA Format
• 500-word minimum
Since communication and critical thinking skills are part of the learning outcomes of this course, all writing assignments and discussion posts should be prepared by the student. Submitting work composed primarily by AI tools violates FSW’s Academic Integrity Policy and will result in a zero on this assignment and possible disciplinary action.

I have attached instructions, and supporting documents. The topic will be Soldiers living in Germany and DUIs. I have attached my blog on my introduction to the topic so you can see what I mean. I need two Query Letters and the last page is to document the sources/ references. I do plan to use the same writer throughout this course for continuity.
I have attached Week 5 instructions & templates just for reference. Please use week 1 attachments to complete this assignment.