Copy Cat, Faker!
Telling your readers where the information in your story comes from, as well as who is being quoted
Attribution
The state or quality of being or using, rude, offensive language, behavior, or images
Obscenity
Ethics
Our freedom of press is protected by this part of the constitution
First Amendment
gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information. It is also the product of these activities
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own
Plagiarism
The action of damaging the good reputation of someone; VIA slander or libel.
Defamation
the quality or state of being correct or precise. One of the 5 core values of journalists
Accuracy
A method of determining credibility of online information in which you open multiple tabs to search for other information to validate the site’s claims.
Lateral Reading
Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics 4 principles
1. Seek Truth and Report it
2. Minimize Hard
3. Act Independently
4. Be Accountable and Transparent
“form of Intellectual property that gives its owner exclusive rights to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute a creative work.”
Copyright
A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation
Libel
News articles are typically written in this shapely order
Inverted Pyramid
The practice of individuals and special interest groups creating fictitious stories and feeding them into social media streams
Fake News
What is Corroboration?
Additional source(s) that confirm or support the claims of a news story, article, or piece of information.
Additional source(s) that confirm or support the claims of a news story, article, or piece of information.
Corroboration
The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
Slander
A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
Principles
False information that is spread, regardless of intent to mislead
Misinformation
This gives journalists the right to request access to records of federal agencies
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
You always need to do this at the very end of your article. How did you learn this? Where did it come from? (no copycat here!)
Citing Your Sources! (ALWAYS for every article!)
Unfair or insulting things are said about someone in order to damage their reputation.
Mudslinging
equal treatment of all; fairness. one of the 5 core values of journalists
Impartiality
False information that is spread, with intent to mislead
Disinformation
Means of communication that reach large numbers of people in a short period of time, such as television, newspapers, magazines, and radio
Mass Media