Newsgathering

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News gathering vocabulary

Students will complete a study sheet to study news gathering terms.

Resources: News gathering activities

This lesson provides a variety of activities for students to complete that help reinforce the news gathering techniques they've learned throughout the news gathering module.

News judgment

This lesson defines news judgment and eight news values used for determining whether something is newsworthy.

Journalistic research

Students will practice locating information based on one of five story scenarios using Internet research.

Using databases

This lesson teaches students what a database is and introduces them to different types of databases used by journalists.

Interviewing practice

This lesson reinforces the basic interviewing process.

Interview a pro

Students will connect with a professional journalist, do basic research, conduct an interview and write an article or Q-and-A or produce a video or audio story.

Question and answer

This lesson covers how to effectively perform a one-on-one interview in Q-and-A format.

Conducting a press conference

Students will learn to navigate and participate in a press conference with an invited source that eventually leads into a news/feature story.

News gathering for a profile story

This lesson focuses on news gathering strategies to write an effective profile story.

News gathering for a sports story

Students will learn what sources and research are essential to sports writing and practice using those resources.

News gathering for the in-depth news / news feature story

Students will identify the types of interviews they will conduct, perform research to build knowledge of their story topic and/or sources, select appropriate sources, plan questions, conduct the interviews and prepare interview transcripts.

How to find new stories

When reporting changes your story

News values and entertainment news

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