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Newsgathering
Election Coverage
This lesson on election coverage moves students through critical-thinking and decision-making processes, then prompts them to cover stories communities need.News Gathering for Specific Needs
Newsgathering
The Power of “How” and “Why”: How Curiosity Can Lead to Great Storytelling
In this lesson, students will be encouraged to think of themselves as “explorers of the world” and will consider the value of asking “how” and “why” in an interview.Information Gathering and Fact Checking
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Humans of Your School Personality Profile
Students will have an opportunity to practice all aspects of yearbook journalism and to learn the process.Interviewing Skills
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Digital note-taking tools experiment
Students will apply research, observation and note-taking skills to synthesize a new method of news gathering with digital note-taking apps such as Evernote and Google Keep.News Gathering Basics
Newsgathering
The human touch: Humans of Your School
This lesson discusses Stanton’s ability to build rapport with strangers and how you will adapt his model to your own interviewing style.Interviewing Skills
Newsgathering
Using Social Media to Cultivate Coverage
Students will review and evaluate professional and other media staffs’ methods of storytelling on a variety of social media platforms.News Gathering Basics
Newsgathering
Digital Dictation Tools
Students will explore digital tools to capture and transcribe interviews.Interviewing Skills
Newsgathering
Establishing and Nurturing Relationships in Beat Reporting
Students will understand and operate a beat reporting system.News Gathering Basics
Newsgathering
Pitch in: Elements of Story Pitch Meetings
Students will analyze how to use the 5Ws and H to test their story idea and present in a concise manner.News Gathering Basics
Newsgathering
Finding stories in data
This lesson helps students begin to identify potential story ideas in data they have collected and introduces students to resources they can use to help visualize that data.Data Journalism
Newsgathering
Introduction to spreadsheets
This lesson introduces students to working with spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel, Google Forms and Google Sheets.Data Journalism
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Using descriptive statistics to analyze data
This lesson introduces students to basic descriptive statistics used for initial data analysis.Data Journalism
Newsgathering
Data in scholastic and professional journalism
Students will explore data journalism projects on both the professional and student level and brainstorm how data might be used in their own reporting.Data Journalism
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Why data literacy matters
This lesson explores why data journalism matters and exposes students to the importance of data and math literacy, even as journalists.Data Journalism
Newsgathering
News gathering basics unit review and test
This lesson provides a review and a test of news gathering basics: research, writing questions, interviewing and observation.News Gathering Basics
Newsgathering
Fact finding and observation
Students will practice essential skills of a reporter: finding and researching facts, interviewing and observation.News Gathering Basics
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Note taking practice
In this lesson, students will learn some tips and tricks for journalistic note taking and practice taking notes from a guest speaker, video or prepared speech.News Gathering Basics
Newsgathering
Interviewing basics
Students learn how to plan, conduct and conclude an interview.Interviewing Skills
Newsgathering
Using public documents
This lesson takes students through the steps of gathering and using public documents to report a story and to cover a public meeting.News Gathering for Specific Needs