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Title Ethical considerations for using profanity Description Even though profanity is protected speech, its use still creates controversy in deciding whether to use it. This exercise will examine the relevant legal issues in using profanity and also help students create ethical solutions to guide their …
Title Should Virtual Reality be a Reality in Scholastic Media? Description Journalism programs constantly face new technology questions. This lesson focuses students on a hot new tool for journalism—virtual reality—and helps students and advisers decide how it might fit into their journalism program. This lesson examines …
Description Journalism programs constantly face new technology questions. This lesson focuses students on a hot new tool for journalism—virtual reality—and helps students and advisers decide how it might fit into their journalism program. This lesson examines one new technology available to journalists (although it could …
Title Interviewing Basics Description This lesson begins with an introduction to interviewing including how to plan, conduct and conclude an interview, suitable for beginners who have no interviewing experience. In part two of the lesson, students will play an ice-breaker game that will help make them …
In this assignment, students will learn what sources and research are essential to sports writing and practice using those resources. This is a flexible lesson that teachers may fit to program needs by requiring students to gather information for one or more types of sports stories, including an advance, a game report, a season recap and/or a sports news feature. Students will gather information on a particular team and use that information to write the story or stories they are assigned.