EOY Prep!

Guys, As you study tonight, review Formal Letters and Factual Reports for Paper 1!

Classwork for 28 August

Hi guys, I am on MC today. Please work in your groups for next week's performance task. Make sure that your article is well developed by this point and does not exceed 600 words (minimum 450). Remember it must be centered around a controversy and have well-established viewpoints from different points of view in your topic area. Also, as you develop your newscast, keep in mind the scoring rubric that will be used and make sure your work is developed around those specific criteria. Your newscast should be done like the last one, but this time only focuses on the one main story your group has chosen. Thanks and have a good Wednesday. Mr. Arrowood PS- If your group has finished (which I don't think is the case for most of you), then do Task 2 from the handouts I gave you yesterday.

Link for 15 August

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap4lfmWuiORydG03aHdjR3lmMm51NEVud1RPTFlqX1E&usp=sharing

News Report (Clemens, Isabella, Yan Zheng and Ming Hui)

News Report (Eunice, Yun Shu, Marcus, Wai Yan)

English News Report

English News Report here(youtube)

Ian, Ethan, Jia Yi and Reuben

News Broadcast Project

In groups of 4 or 5, create a TV news broadcast. 

-Three anchors:
    -- Two for hard news
    -- One for soft news (choose one)

-One person in charge of video/graphics 

Anchors:

-Research a recent news story (local or international) and write a script of how you would present that story for a TV news broadcast. Your script should follow the guidelines we have discussed in the Features of a News Broadcast. In addition to the story itself, your script should include anything else you plan on saying (lead-in, sign-off, transitions) during the broadcast. You may use clips from YouTube of newscasts as inspiration.

Graphics person: 

-Create a Keynote with slides that you will show to supplement the anchors' stories. This means you will have to work with the anchors to decide what pictures, video clips (footage), and graphics you will use while they are reporting the stories. There should be at least one picture/background per story being reported.

The news broadcast must be at least 5 minutes in length and a maximum of 10 minutes. 
 

One person from each group must arrange for their group to be filmed while presenting. The news broad cast can also be pre-recorded if you have the time to complete this before class.

How long do we have?!

-You will have the rest of today's class period as well as all of tomorrow's class period to put together this presentation and rehearse it with your group. The presentations will occur the next lesson.

English Journalism Presentation (Luke, Ian, Jason, Priya)

Hard and Soft News-Ethan Reuben Nicholas

Slides For Presentation - Eunice & Gayvin & Yunshu

English Journalism Presentation

Minh Tri, Ming Hui, Thurga. Presentation.

We are journalists writing about the taxi driver that returned 70k to the owner. We believe this type of news is soft news, but it is a bit closer to soft news. It can be soft news as this would usually be more related to the taxi driver’s feelings and why did he return the money. It would be more of soft news as it goes to a personal level. It is more of an ethical issue and usually be linked to his reasons why he returned the 70k. It is not a hard news as it is not to the point, not mainly about giving data and precisely explain what happened. 

• Our journal is about taxi driver returning 70k. to owner. 
• Soft news 
• Relate to driver’s feelings
• Personal
• Ethical issue. It is not a hard news. Cause it is not mainly about saying how much the driver returned, not straight to the point, but it goes really really deep.

We would develop the story by describing the story briefly and explain the situation. Then, I would interview the parties involved in the incident. I would ask questions related to feelings, emotions and thoughts. For example, I would ask the taxi driver, how did you feel when you found the money? I would try to ask all the persons involved, if possible. 

• Describe briefly then explain.
• Interview ALL parties involved.
• Ask question related to emotions and thoughts, feelings.
• Examples

For verification of facts, I would record the interview, either by audio or video and try to ask the person involved directly and not through secondary or tertiary sources. Our method of getting information would be mainly interviewing first person or referring to the pictures taken from news articles. I could try to take photos from other professional journalists and of course, I have to credit them for their photos. However, these things would be the last resort and should be used the last. We should try to get information on our own first before using others.

•  Record interview audio or video
• Ask directly, first person.
• Try Primary Sources.
• Take from other journalist. Of course must reference, credit.
• Use your own information first.

English Journalism Presentation

Three of Seven Dilemmas Journalists face

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ue9n4z8js0wbpt3/Audio_Recording_34.aifc


Invasion of Privacy

The journalist is going to write an article on a famous singer. In order to make it more interesting, the journalist wants to get more information about the singer. The journalist than follows the singer around just to pry into the singer's private life.

Conflict of Interest

The journalist is going to interview a singer who is charged with drink driving. The journalist herself is a big fan of a singer and when she reports about the singer, she writes about the singer in such a way that the singer has no fault.


Plagiarism

The journalist is tasked to write about a famous singer. The journalist searches about the famous singer online and uses somebody else's information about the singer. The journalist does not credit the person who created the post. This is called Plagiarism.

3 Ethical Dilemmas That Journalist Face- Reuben Ang

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfSn2XWNFmw&feature=youtu.be

Script:
Offending or distasteful content

The purpose of being a journalist is to report news and share it with the world. If a journalist discloses information that is deemed offending or distasteful, how would the offended party or person feel? If somebody does not know anything or does not have any background information about the news that he is watching, that person might have a bad impression of the offended person and might make some wrong judgement.

Invasion of privacy

Well, there definitely is a line between invading somebody’s privacy and interview people or witnesses. They are humans too. They need some privacy, some time to rest with the comfort of being alone. Singers are a good example. As obvious as it seems, singing is their job. It is definitely a very tiresome one. When journalists keep going to them and question them about their profession, they won’t get their rest period. They have family and friends to they have to spent time with too, just like you and I.

Commitment to accuracy

The task and purpose of being a journalist is to relate facts to the public or audience. If the information that the journalist report is not true, what is the purpose of following the news? Usually, journalist report false information because they want to make the news sound interesting and exciting so more people will buy their news and as a result, earn more money.

Seven ethical dilemmas that journalists face

Ethical Dilemmas Podcast (Gavin)

Three of the Seven Dilemmas Journalists face - Wai Yan

Script

Hi everyone! I am Wai Yan from S2-05 and today I am recording a podcast (an audio one evidently) to explain some problems or dilemmas Journalists of today face, especially the ethic-related problems/ issues.

Like I said, journalists have a 'code of conducts' that they have to follow. it 's not a lawful thing or whatever (except for some though) but it's something ethical, something really "humane". This codes consist of seeking and reporting the truth, minimizing harm (on anyone), being independent as well as being accountable.

With this 'Code of Ethics', there comes problems and journalists face some perplexity or dilemmas. There is a group of ethical dilemmas that are rather commonly faced by journalists at many points of their time in their life as journalists. It is e known as the "Seven Ethical Dilemmas Journalists Face". There are seven of it as stated in the header, varying from 'conflict of interests', 'plagiarism', 'anonymous sources', 'offending or distasteful content', 'invasion of privacy', 'bias' and 'commitment to accuracy'.

In my opinion, the most important of these seven is the writers 'commitment to accuracy', 'plagiarism' and the journalist's wrong usage of words. 

Starting with the very first one, the writer's commitment to accuracy is to me, one of the most important, or might very well be THE most important of the three, ultimately the seven. A journalist's very main job is to deliver to you information which is true, or in other words, correct and precise information. So if the factor of accuracy is compromised in the information or resources he delivers, is that still journalism? I don't think so and this is why I feel that this factor is of utmost importance to the other factors as it determines a journalist whether he is a 'legitimate' journalist or not, as it determines the definition of journalism. Always remember, not publishing information is almost always better than publishing inaccurate information.

Coming up second, plagiarism is a very serious offense, especially in the aspect of journalism. As members of society, we have learn to acknowledge other's work and not STEAL them. It's important to the point that even students are required to follow as well.

And lastly, the most basic but important factor of the seven is the journalist's usage of words. It's perfectly fine when the journalist uses the right (good) ones but it becomes an issue when he don't. This is because as a journalist, you are required to be formal (not literally though) in the sense that you have to know how to talk or so called 'communicate' with the mass public. Not using vulgarities or profanities or just inappropriate language is a clear example. 

That's all for now. Thank you.

Three Ethical Dilemmas Journalists face

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8OHrUxFRmT-Y3JDamVUbHJPNm8/edit?usp=sharing

Hello, i am Jason Low from S2-05 and today i will be talking about three ethical dilemmas that journalists would face.

Firstly, i would to say that this is purely my opinion and it might be wrong.

The three ethical dilemmas that i will be talking about today is Invasion of privacy, Conflict of interest and Bias.

Invasion of privacy is where a journalist would say peep through the windows of a celebrity's house just to take a few shots of the person. On the other hand, if a celebrity went to the beach and was showing more skin than usual, that isn't an invasion of privacy as the beach is a public place where anyone can go. The celebrity may request that the photos be deleted as it does not show the person in a good manner, but the option of deleting the photos would be left up to the journalist.

Conflict of interest is when a journalist would change details about the story without affecting the main point of it. An example would be if a journalist was asked to cover a story about a certain company in the the stock market that was recently losing money, and that reporter is heavily invested in a the company’s stock, it might change how he/she writes about the company.

Lastly bias, one example would be in the case where a journalist was asked to cover a story about two different companies but he/she might favorite one more than the other, this would affect the story. Thank you!

Three of Seven Ethical Dilemmas (Isabella)

Audio Recording - http://www.mediafire.com/download/kqnq9shqrd818fu/Audio_Recording_4.m4a