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J210 Syllabus (Spring 2012)

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NEWS BASICS

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What is News?

• Eight Guidelines
• What Were Those Guidelines?
• Today's Front Pages
• A President is Assassinated
• America Under Attack (9/11)
• Weird News
• Bizarre = Eating a Wedding Guest
• Video: (History) Newsplayer
• The Newseum

Newswriting Basics

• Lead Guidelines
• Lead Samples
• Organizing a News Story
  
• Using Quotes

News Simulations

• Breaking News: Fire
• City Council Meeting
  

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Interviewing

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Doing Interviews

Professional Pointers

• How To Pt 1
• How To Pt 2
• Other Tips
• Juveniles
• Email
• Laws on Taping
  

Anonymous Sources

• Off the Record
• Sample Polices 
  

Student Samples

•   Interview 1
•   Interview 2
•   Interview 3
•   Interview 4
  

For Broadcast

• TV Tips
• More TV Tips
  
• NPR Tips
• Radio
• ESPN-Style
  

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NewsU Tutorial (Registration Required)

• Telling Stories With Sound   (Required)

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Doing Polls

• Input Data in Class Spreadsheet
  
• Upload to Class Tumblr Publication
  

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Professionals

• ABC News
  
• Gallup
• Harris Interactive
• Pew Research Center
• Zogby

Sample Stories

• California's Best Days Gone (LATimes)
• Support for Tax on Wealthy (CBS)
• Occupy vs Tea Party(Washington Post)

Samples

• HOW TO (pdf)

By Students

• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3

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Covering Speeches

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Guides

• Basic How-To
• Another How-To
• What NOT To Do
• One to Download (pdf)

Samples

1. Head of Associated Press
2. Writer-Reporter Carl Bernstein
3. Oprah Winfrey
4. FYI: Panel Discussions (pdf)

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Media & Ethics

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Professional Codes

• Society of Professional Journalists
• Public Relations Society of America
• Radio Television Digital News Assn.
• National Press Photographers Assn.
• Online Journalism Ethics
• Other Ethics Codes

Other Resources

• Background & Resources
• Ethics Tip Sheets
• Ethics Cases Online
• How to Avoid Plagiarism
• Tracking Plagiarism in the Media
• Center for Journalism Ethics

• Guidelines for Crafting a Personal Ethics Policy
  

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Gathering Information

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Checking the Web

• General Internet Guide
• Web Evaluation Wizard
• Who Owns This Web Page?
• Find Expired Web Pages
• Domains Database
• Alternate Domain List
• Is It a Hoax?
  

Web Tutorials

• Advanced Google Search
• Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
• Web Evaluation Tutorials
• Library Resources
• Library Tutorial
• Reference Resources on the Web

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CSUN/JDept Resources:

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• Main Page

• CSUN Social Media Page
• CSUN: Mobile App
• Broadcast TV
• Daily Sundial
• El Nuevo Sol
• Facebook: CSUN
• Facebook: Daily Sundial
• Facebook: JDepartment

• JDepartment Syllabi
• Journalism Department
• KCSN (Radio)
  
• Monday Memo
• Scene Magazine
• Twitter: CSUN
• Twitter: Daily Sundial
• Twitter: JDepartment

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The Header: Reporting for the Comics

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Who's Who:

• Brenda Starr
• Clark Kent (Superman)
• Shoe
• Friday Foster
• Rick Redfern (Doonesbury)

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