Role of Journalist

All EXCEPT one are ways to receive the news:

• News App

• Newspaper

• Radio

• Watching my thumb

• TV

To be accurate means...

• To be trustworthy

• To be correct

• To have minimum mistakes

• To be intelligent

To be credible means to...

• To fake information

• To miss my deadlines

• To be trustworthy

• To interview people

The role of a journalist is...

• To only provide one side of the story.

• To interview their friends.

• To only focus on one group or topic.

• To provide accurate information on a wide variety of topics.

What do journalists do?

• Research, verify, interview, report.

• Research, verify, report.

• Research, verify, interview, report, publish

• Research, hope, report, publish.

Why is texting not journalism?

• It does not reach the mass audience.

• Texting IS journalism.

• Texting only provides one side of the story.

How does social media relate to journalism?

• It's fun!

• Everything you read is true.

• It allows you to find story ideas.

How does research relate to journalism?

• It provides facts for your news story.

• It's boring.

• A research paper is only for the teacher or class, not the mass audience.

Who is our audience for the school newspaper?

• Mr. Ray

• My Parents

• The teachers

• Students, teachers, parents.

To be a strong journalism class, we must...

• Write about all sorts of topics and only use our online school newspaper.

• Cover a variety of topics and events and include print, online, TV, and podcasts to publish our stories.

• Cover the same people, topics, events, over and over again.

• Eat more pizza and watch more YouTube.