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Snapchat storytelling

Description Journalists should be meeting their audiences where they live, and for today’s students, that place is Snapchat. For this lesson, students will practice utilizing this social media tool for storytelling purposes and create an archive for their Snap Stories on their online news site. Objectives …

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Covering sensitive topics — Exploring media coverage of race cases

This lesson explores news editorial coverage of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases by looking at editorials printed by major newspapers during the cases and grand jury investigations. The lesson begins by asking students what they already know about the Brown and Garner cases, and then pairs of students are assigned an editorial to read and analyze. Students then contribute to a collaborative document about how the media covered these events.

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