"Journalism Next" Reading Assignments
The following assignment or group of assignments carries the highest weight:
1. Stories
2. Final Blog
3. Discussions
4. Story Ideas
What is Stories
A good newsroom listens to its people for the better of the story?
True/False
A metaphor used by journalists and other writers to illustrate how information should be prioritized..
What is (the) inverted pyramid (of journalism).
According to Twitter or X, this is defined as engaging in bulk, aggressive, or deceptive activities that misleads others or disrupts their experience.
What is platform manipulation?
New articles termed in WordPress?
What are posts?
You avoid using as a transition in your writing
What is rhetorical questions?
What percentage of emails are spam?
What is almost 70%.
In Professor Land's 30 tips for writing, how one should deal with cliches in writing.
What is invent new cliches.
The ability to maintain a constant connection with others without a direct communication tool such as phone or email, which is one-on-one.
What is ambient awareness/intimacy?
Journalists in this digital age should never need to know how to code.
True/False
What is False?
All assignments MUST be submitted by the end of week 8.
True/False
What is true?
Define good journalism?
What is accuracy, fairness and discoverable truth through ethical reporting practices.
One of the journalism websites we were encouraged to use as sources for our 500-word story on the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
What is the Associated Press (AP)
What is Reuters.
Twitter or X refers to ____ as driving traffic or attention from a conversation online to accounts, products, services, or websites.
What is commercially motivated spam?
Which two tabs can be found in the top right corner of the open text box in WordPress, allowing you to toggle views?
What is text and visual?
SALVO means in writing.
What is Subject-Verb-Object?
In the 2010s what did Journalism face that was crafted by profiteers wearing the mask of legitimacy?
What is the challenge of fake news.
When _____ opens up between the author and text or the words we chose and do not chose.
What is a gap.
The growth of certain online automated story generation
What is "Pink Slime Journalism"?
One compact disc holds?
1. 200 megabytes
2. 50 megabytes
3. 650 megabytes
4. 1000 megabytes
What is 650 megabytes?
Many local newsrooms closed down between 2020 and 2022
1. only 10
2. More than 70
3. Less than 100
4. More than 25
What is more than 70?
How did Journalism change in the 21st century?
What is with the role of the scribe the birth of satellites and the sprawling of the internet.
According to the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, these are the four basic principles required for quality online writing.
What are
Persuasion, Objectivity, Visibility, and Navigability
A visual sketch of the story, separated into different parts so it can be organized
What is a storyboard?