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Journalism Homework - Due Midnight November 11
You have till midnight next Friday to get these submitted. If you want to be certain of the requirements for each course, they can be found here.
Login for journalism students is: jerusalem_s
Password is: fandomhigh
Remember this. We'll be using this site and others in the future.
Scan the site. Find something which interests you, be it column, news story, headline or use of photographs.
100 words on what you found and why it captured your interest.
Journalism 201
150 words on the piece you chose and how you might have done it differently.
Journalism 301
200 words on why you did or didn't like the way the site is set up as far as it helped or didn't help you find what you were looking for.
Advanced Journalism
150 words on today's New York Times issue and your impression of the website as far as ease of use and/or impact of presentation - as compared to hard-copy newspaper.
Combat Journalism
100-150 words on internet news reporting and the use of weblogs and/or journals to report 'news' and the accountability or lack thereof of people who use their weblogs/journals to spread 'news' that they have picked up in other journals and not bothered to verify.
Photojournalism needs to give me 100 words on the use of photographs on the New York Times Website - positive or negative.
Please be sure to put which course your response is for in the subject line of your comment for easier grading. This post and all other homework posts will be added to the memories section of my journal so that you can find it again to post when your homework is complete. It will also be linked in the daily classes.
If you plan on using extra-credit for your homework, you will need to say so in the comments of this post, or credit will not be granted.
Journalism 101 - using extra credit
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I think there's extra credit to be used...
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Extra Credit question
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Ooh neat icon!
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Journalism 101 Homework (repost)
The article caught my attention because it’s about a successful writer. And a non-conventional path to success.
Marie NDiaye write dark novels, often about vampires. She retreated to a secluded village in Normandy to write her works. The article suggests isolation helped her productivity. It doesn’t really say why, which is annoying because I’d like to know.
I don’t know if I’ll ever do anything with my music. It’s inside of me, and I have to let it out or go insane, but I write it for myself, I’m not sure I really want to share it with the world.
[OOC: 100 words on the nose, not counting the link back to the story]
OOC
Just found out my brother's been admitted to hospital, in another state...and focus is out the window. Also may have to make trip north...with very short notice.
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Combat Journalism - Extra Credit
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Journalism 101 - This time with article link
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: November 10, 2005
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This is an article that demonstrates the U.S. agenda in regards to their nuclear energy policy, and not surprisingly, it has little to do with weapons development.
As long as the U.S. can continue to control who is allowed to develop nuclear technology, they have the master’s leash in their grasp. Play nice with the U.S. and they will fully support a country’s nuclear program, allowing them to develop their own fuel.
If a country’s policy differs from the U.S, perhaps even being in opposition of U.S. policy, the richest nation on the planet will squeeze and use their political clout to control the economic growth, or death, of a region.
Journalism 301
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My first impression upon visiting the New York Times website is that it’s crowded. There’s a lot of information encased in a rather small space and it can almost bombard the human eye. Upon closer examination however, I found that while it is crowded, it is laid out in a way that makes it’s compact, concise, and easy to find.
The list of hyperlinks on the left hand negates having to sift through national news to get to international news and vice versa. The New York Times website also clearly labels everything. If there’s an article in big print, it’s labeled with the type of news, date of news, and author of the article.
I was specifically looking for something on the local New York elections and Michael Bloomberg’s victory. Selecting the New York hyperlink on the left side immediately brought up a slew of articles dealing with the actual election and the aftermath of the election.
There’s also a prominent search button at the top of the page. Typing ‘Michael Bloomberg’ in that search brought up several articles from both the Times and other agencies about the local elections and the possible impact in a clear and effective manor.
Journalism 301
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While the New York Times website is extremely informative, the designer of the website was unable to organize it so that a great deal of information could be best fit into a comparatively small amount of web space. The website appears to be a bit scatterbrained. The articles are organized into groups, but most of them are hidden away beneath other links and advertisements. As a result, some articles are given multiple links, others are hidden under miles of red tape, and the end result is one of clutter. The organization of this website would no doubt work better on paper than on a computer screen.
I also have to say that there is absolutely no way to figure out where one is on the site through examination of the unwieldy links (like, for example, “http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/10/business/10cnd-econ.html?hp&ex=1131685200&en=97cc8d28fe3e94e0&ei=5094&partner=homepage”). It would probably make it somewhat inconvenient to find archived articles except by combing search results. Of course, in all fairness, it is not the only newspaper website to use this odd method of hyperlinking, so I suppose I shouldn’t be totally condemning.
In the New York Time website’s favor, however, I must say that it has an extremely complete collection of national news.
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Advanced Journalism - used in conjunction with extra credit
The NY Times website is efficiently run, and they make it ridiculously easy to follow links to articles. By comparison to a hard-copy paper, it’s certainly a lot less hassle to navigate, since there are no pages or threats of paper cuts.
However, my one, tiny issue with the site is that it does take quite a while to load. Which is completely understandable, as the site is both image/graphic heavy, and there is a great deal of important information crammed onto each page. However, my poor little computer nevertheless found it difficult to handle.
Personally, I’ve found that checking the news online is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s is both convenient and quick – but inversely, it signals the end of the reign of the hard-copy paper. In many ways, the advent of online news sources such as the NY Times heralds the end of an era.
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