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The Mind of A Journalist
and Elements of
Journalism
CHAPTER ONE
Jocelyn Langford, Jon Hansen, Casey
Adams, Courtney Carter, Mallory Siebers
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What Journalism Is All About
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What is Journalism For?
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What is Journalism For?
Information creates democracy
Power to do good and inspire people tofight for their freedom
journalism helped build a community, itwas for citizenship, and democracy
For taking back the language from thegovernment
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So What is Journalism?
Some suggest that the definition ofjournalism has been exploded by
technology so now anything isseen as journalism.
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Journalism is determined bythe function news plays inthe lives of the people
The news media helps us
define our communities aswell as help us create a
common language andknowledge rooted in reality
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Identifies a communitys
goals, heroes and villains
The Primary Purpose of
journalism is to providecitizens with the information
they need to be free and self
governing.
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What some reporters had to say aboutwhat journalism means:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqeoCK4uds The news media serve as a watchdog,
push people beyond complacency, andoffer a voice to the forgotten. I want to
give voices to said people who need avoice...people who are powerless.- Yuen Ying Chan, a former reporter forthe New York Daily News
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Perhaps in the end
journalism simply meanscarrying on and amplifyingthe conversation of the
people themselves.- James Carey
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Beware: Defining Journalismcan be dangerous.
Beware: Defining Journalismcan be dangerous.
It makes it resistant to changingwith the times
Every generation creates itsown journalism
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But the purpose of journalismremains the same:
To serve the general welfare byinforming the people.
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Discussion Question: What
does journalism mean to you?
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Awareness Instinct
Humans have exchanged asimilar mix of news with a
consistency throughout historyand cultures that makes interestin this news seems inevitable, if
not innate.
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Birth of Journalism
Journalism began in the form of song
as minstrels traveled the country
(end of middle ages)
Seventeenth century- conversations
Visitors to bars and coffeehouses in
America could write in a book
located at the end of the bar
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England: two newspapermen,
under the pen name Cato,introduced the idea that
truth should be a defense
against libel whereas the
government was saying the
exact opposite
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Ben Franklin told Pres.
Washington that No
government ought to be withoutcensors and where the press is
free, no one ever will. Bill of
Rights was formed
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Awareness Instinct
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A Free Press in an Electronic Age
If you dont publish it, someone will
Technology is turning passive
consumers into active participants
Google: Countless outlets for any
news story
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We as journalists need to:
get stable points
look at things from multiple viewsGet to the core of matters
Come to conclusions in uncertain
environments
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Journalists no longerdecide what the public
needs to know, butinstead make order outof all the informationavailable.
Not interpret oranalyze
But verify reliable
informationOrder thatinformation for peopleto effectively grasp
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In this era, anyone can be a
journalist
The professionals becomeforum leaders
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Journalism is now a conversation
with the consumer, like it started
Email addresses
The technique is different, but the
principles are the same: Verification
first
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Discussion Question: How
does this role of a journalist
work? Does it work?
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The Journalists Theory ofDemocracy
We have a free press, yet....(approximately)
3 out of 10 Americans can name their
congressman (Can you?)
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Big BusinessButs In
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