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The document provides information about upcoming internship information meetings on September 15th and 16th for the Washington Seminar and Utah State Legislature internships. It also provides details about each internship opportunity, including location, credits earned, housing availability, and eligibility requirements. Key details are that the Washington Seminar is for a semester in Washington D.C. in upper-division credits and various internships are available, while the Utah State Legislature is for the winter semester of 2012 in Salt Lake City and includes a stipend. Juniors and seniors from all majors may apply to both.
351 lecture 3
- 1. Week 3 Know Your Neighborhood
- 2. Internship Information Meetings Thursday, September 15, 11:00 a.m., 3220 WSC Friday, September 16, 12:00 p.m., 238 HRCB Washington Seminar Utah State Legislature •Spend a semester in Washington, DC •Winter semester 2012 •Earn upper‐division credit •Earn upper‐division credit •Gain prac:cal career experience •S:pend provided •Housing available •A great internship in Salt Lake City •Variety of internships available •Juniors and seniors in all majors may •Juniors and seniors in all majors may apply. apply. Visit us at. . . 945 SKWT * 801‐422‐6029 * hSp://washingtonseminar@byu.edu * Like us on Facebook
- 3. Can You Trust The Daily Show to Give You the News?
- 5. Key Lesson Of News Literacy Number One Know Your Neighborhood It’s Easy to Get Lost
- 6. How Is News Different? Taxonomy: a classification system
- 7. Taxonomy Starts with Definitions Promotion Is the marketing of goods, services and personalities designed to increase their appeal to consumers
- 9. Taxonomy: Promotion A Subset: Publicity The measures, process or business of securing public notice. Information designed to enhance an image.
- 10. Taxonomy: Promotion A Subset: Advertising Attracting attention by paying to have advertisements place on billboards, in newspapers and broadcasts or on websites.
- 11. Taxonomy: Propaganda Information, ideas or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, Institution or nation. It is often biased or misleading, in order to promote an ideology or political point of view.
- 12. Taxonomy: Entertainment Something affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement, often a performance of some kind.
- 13. Taxonomy: Raw Information Information that has yet to be examined or verified. It is unfiltered information that bypasses traditional gatekeepers and mediators.
- 14. WikiLeaks Site When does raw/unfiltered information Become journalism?
- 15. What is News? Information of some public interest that is shared and subject to a journalistic process of verification, and for which the individual and organization are accountable.
- 16. How Is News Different? Taxonomy = Clarity about differences among similar things
- 17. How Is News Different? Taxonomy = Clarity about differences among similar things
- 18. What Methods Make Journalism Different? Verification Independence Accountability (Mnemonic device: “Via”)
- 19. What Makes News Different? Verification Process that establishes or confirms the accuracy or truth of something
- 20. Verification
- 21. What Makes News Different? Independence Freedom from the control, influence, or support of interested parties, coupled with a conscious effort to set aside any preexisting beliefs and a system of checks and balances.
- 22. Independence Journalists must not have a relationship to their subjects.
- 23. Independence Journalists must not have a relationship to their subjects.
- 24. What Makes News Different? Accountability Responsible or answerable for your work.
- 25. Accountability Corrections are one way journalists are accountable for their work.
- 27. “Tech Expert” Robin Raskin on Her Role in VNRs “I actually joked with my colleagues that, ‘Hey, I’m off to go do Whore TV.” I was fully aware that that’s what it was.” -Excerpted from “True Enough,” by journalist Farhad Manjoo
- 28. Un-Blurring the Lines: News or Advertising? How to Spot VNRs: - Look for Sign Offs - Look for credentials of experts – are they Accountable and Independent? - Look for multiple sources supplying evidence - Look for verified information
- 29. Taxonomy is Challenged On the Web Which Neighborhood is it?
- 30. Un-Blurring the Lines Online Taxonomy helps sort News from Promotion Reliable bloggers give their name, credentials and affiliations
- 31. The Blurring of the Lines: News vs. Entertainment
- 33. Un-Blurring the Lines: News vs. Entertainment ‘Based on Fact’ ‘Inspired By a True Story’ If it has actors, if it has the word ‘drama’ in its description, if it is produced by the entertainment division – it’s not news, it’s entertainment.
- 34. The Blurring of the Lines: There is news About Entertainment Is TMZ News?
- 35. The Blurring of the Lines: “Exclusives” When a famous person chooses one outlet to tell a high-demand story, what happens to verification and independence?
- 36. Neighborhoods Case Study: Gulf Oil Spill Which Neighborhood?
- 38. Know Your Neighborhood: What Makes News Different? What is Journalism? Who is a Journalist?
- 39. Who is a Journalist?
- 40. So Who is a Journalist? • Primary Mission is to Inform the Public • Employs Journalistic Methods and Values
- 41. So Who is a Journalist? • Subjects work to verification • Makes a conscious effort to maintain independence • Accountable: Stands behind work
- 42. Is Jon Stewart a Journalist? The Daily Show Hosts Al Gore
- 43. What Methods Make Journalism Different? Verification Independence Accountability (Mnemonic device: “Via”)
- 44. Know Your Neighborhood
- 45. Homework assignment Due September 28
- 46. Next week • No class meeting • Lecture will be on the class website http://byunewsliteracy.wordpress.com
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