Citizen Journalists

This link from yesterday's newspaper goes right along with issues raised in the "News War" documentary. Please read it to see how Yahoo plans on using non-journalists to feed their news sites.

After you read the article, please list in your notebook 3 positives and 3 negatives you see resulting from Yahoo's plan.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/yahoo-seeks-news-from-its-users/?ref=technology

Ethics

We were talking about ethics in Journalism. What's happened to ethics in school?

http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/students-busted-for-cheating-22954742

Critiquing a Photograph

Please print out this handout from the NY Times Learning Network:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/learning/pdf/2010/20100423photocritique.pdf


Then search various news sites for what you consider to be a great journalistic photo.

Some sites you may consider:

http://www.life.com/


The Year in Photos - 2009

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1946595_2010901,00.html

New York Times Lens Blog:


http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

Newspapers in Decline

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/view/21.html?c=4wm

NEWS WAR

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/view/16.html?c=4wm

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