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Today is catch-up day.

Eugene Kane?

Take advantage of the people kind enough to speak to you.

• He works at his dream jobdream job.

• He writes with passionpassion, attitudeattitude and convictionconviction.

• He reports and substantiates his opinions with factsfacts.

• He tries to see the world from a different different perspectiveperspective.

• He is not objective.

Diversity in newsrooms?

What is the impact of media coverage?

Temple University Journalism Department’s mission?

• To develop critical-thinkingcritical-thinking journalists who can communicate creatively in a multimedia environmentmultimedia environment and remain sensitive to the diversity of perspectivesdiversity of perspectives within urbanurban, underrepresented underrepresented communitiescommunities of our increasingly multicultural worldmulticultural world.

Journalism is powerfulJournalism is powerful.

Yield your power wisely.

Extra Credit: TABJ Networking NightExtra Credit: TABJ Networking Night• Journalists from all

genres will be in attendance.

• 4/22 @ 7pm in 4/22 @ 7pm in Annenberg HallAnnenberg Hall.

• To earn up to 10 points, write a one page paper describing what you experienced and what you walked away with.

• Get biz cards!

• What’s next in journalismWhat’s next in journalism? • Attendees include people from every medium, and

from across the country. This is huge.• Annenberg Hall on 4/24 from 9 am until 5Annenberg Hall on 4/24 from 9 am until 5.• To earn up to ten extra credit points, you need to

talk to two non-Temple people about journalism.• Write a one page paper detailing the

conversations, and include contact infoinclude contact info.

Extra credit papers from both events are due in hard

copy by 4/29.

If you want to stay on my good side, remember these thingsremember these things:

• Spelling punctuation and grammar countSpelling punctuation and grammar count. Always. If you have errors, it undermines your credibility.

• “Over” is different from “more than,” just as “less” is different from “fewer.”

• Punctuation goes inside quotation marksPunctuation goes inside quotation marks.

• Write “people who” not “people that.”

Issues Facing JournalismIssues Facing Journalism papers are due on TuesdayTuesday.

In hard copy, in class. And via SafeAssign.

Issues Facing Journalism?

• Start with a specific specific incident or storyincident or story.

• Pose a questionPose a question.• Offer your opinions

supported by the Newsworthiness Newsworthiness CriteriaCriteria and the Principles of Principles of JournalismJournalism.

• Discuss two similar two similar situationssituations.

Issues Facing Journalism?

Are celebrities

newsworthy?

Are celebrities

newsworthy?

• The Associated Press launched Celebrity Extra on August 6, 2008.

• TMZ averaged nearly 4 million hits per day in December and January because of the Tiger Woods scandal.

• #51 website in the world.

Nick Ut photographed Paris Hilton after her sentencing exactly 35 years after photographing the children running from a napalm attack in Vietnam.

Did Nick Ut sell out?

Are celebrities a distraction?

How do you decide what is news and what is distraction?

Newsworthiness criteria and the principles of journalism.

Some people want that information.

That qualifies it for coverage.

We just need to be sure that the audience has a marketplace of ideasmarketplace of ideas.

Journalism is a businessJournalism is a business.

Celebrities are our greatest common denominator.

Tuesday: AdvertisingAdvertising lecture with TA Kelly George.

So please read the Vivian chapter on advertising.

Pop Quiz!

1. What happened to Polish President Lech Kaczynski?

2. For what newspaper does Eugene Kane write?

3. Name any candidate running for governor of Pennsylvania.

4. What is the name of Philadelphia’s new soccer team?

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