Unit 1Unit 1The NewsThe News

Designer: Joy Liu

Activity OneHow to Write a News Article?

Major News Agents in the World

Activity TwoChance & Opportunity

Game

Activity OneActivity One

How to Write a Good News Article?Major News Agents in the World

How to write a good news article?

Adapted from: Sebrank, Patrick, Verne Meyer, and Dave Kemper. Write Source 2000. Wilmington: MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.

To be a good reporter, you should know these guidelines

first.

• Task: Report the facts.

• Style: Write short and direct sentences and paragraphs which carry the most crucial information that readers need to know or are interested.

• Bias: Newspaper articles should be written without bias. In other words, you should report the facts objectively. Do not give opinions in your news article.

Bias: 偏見Objectively: 客觀地

FormatFormat Headline

Byline

Lead Paragraph

Explanation&Background information

Lead Paragraph

• The most prominent paragraph in a news article.

• Include the who, what, when, where, why, and how as appropriate.

• Better start with a strong, interesting sentence to get the reader engaged.

Basic Facts in the Lead ParagraphBasic Facts in the Lead Paragraph

NNWho EE

What

WWWhere

SSWhen

Why

The Following Paragraphs

• In the following paragraphs, a journalist has to provide explanations of the details and the background information for the news.

The news is often written in an up-side-down pyramid way. The most prominent paragraph goes first,

and the last, the least.

Up-Side-Down News PyramidUp-Side-Down News Pyramid

Most Important Facts

Less Important

Least Important

Major News Agencies in the World

FFive Major News Agenciesive Major News Agencies

• Associated Press AP美聯社（美）• France-Presse Online 法新社（法）• Reuters 路透社（法）• United Press International

UPI合眾國際社（美）• TASS 塔斯社（俄羅斯）

Click & Go Online

APAP

ReutersReuters

AFP (AFP ( 法新社法新社 ))

UPI(合眾國際社 )

TASS (TASS ( 塔斯社塔斯社 ))

After reading this unit…

Do you want to be a journalist?

Then you’d better…

• be an excellent oral and written communicator

• have good shorthand, keyboard and IT skills

• be able to work to tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure

• be self-confident • be able to take responsibility for

your work and accept criticism • be a good team player • be balanced and objective• have good listening and questioning

skills• have a good knowledge of current

affairs and journalistic law

Oh, my gosh!Oh, my gosh!I think you I think you

have to be a have to be a super person!super person!

Extended HomeworkExtended Homework

• Find a piece of your favorite news. Have a brief reading of it.

• To accomplish this task, you can surf the internet, go to the library for English language magazines, or just buy an English newspaper and enjoy the reading.

Activity TwoActivity Two

Chance & OpportunityChance & Opportunity

GameGame

In this section, we prepare some questions to

challenge your understanding of this unit. You will get a Dumb Head

if you fail to answer the question. But if you

answer 3 questions right, you’re the winner!

OpportunityFortune1

Some questions are easy, and some are difficult. Just enjoy the game & make a choice now!

Pick Me Pick Me

OpportunityFortune2

Pick Me Pick Me

OpportunityFortune3

Pick Me Pick Me

Today’s winner goes Today’s winner goes to…to…

Related Words• News release ( 機關單位所發出的）新聞稿• Reporter / Broadcast Journalist 電視記者• Anchor 電視主播• Journalist 報紙記者• Correspondent 駐外特派員• News Agency 通訊社

( 負責提供新聞給各媒體 )

• Breaking News 即時新聞• Exclusive News 獨家新聞• Headlines 頭條新聞• Freelance Journalist 自由發稿記

者• Press Conference 記者會• Editorial Meeting 編輯會議• School of Journalism 新聞學

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What makes a story newsworthy to you?

(It’s an open question.)

Fortune 1

Pass?

Or got a Dumb Head?

Click here to go to the next question!

• Use the pattern “S + do/does not + have to +V…” to make a sentence.

• Ex. A story does not have to be tragic to be newsworthy.

Fortune 2

Pass?

Or got a Dumb Head?

What is the best honor for a journalist’s good work?

(Hint: it’s a prize.)

Fortune 3

The Pulitzer Prize.(普立茲獎)Click & See!Click & See!

• Name any 2 English newspaper or magazines you know.

Opportunity 1

Ex. New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, National Geography, Seventies, etc.

Click here to go to the next question!

• AP, Reuters, France-Presse are the major news agencies in the world. What is the news agency of Taiwan?

Opportunity 2

Central News Agency

(Click & See)

• Do you want to be a journalist? Why? Why not?

Opportunity 3Click here to go to

the end!

Pulitzer Prize

• Established in 1904 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer.

• The most significant and honorable prize for journalism, literature, music and drama.

Joseph Pulitzer

(1847-1911)

A 19th century journalist

http://www.pulitzer.org/

Central News Agency (Central News Agency ( 中央中央社社 ))