Group 1 the Mind of a Journalist

8/4/2019 Group 1 the Mind of a Journalist

1/49

The Mind of A Journalist

and Elements of

Journalism

CHAPTER ONE

Jocelyn Langford, Jon Hansen, Casey

Adams, Courtney Carter, Mallory Siebers


2/49

What Journalism Is All About

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjw (0:55-1:45)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpwrWdmAjw


3/49

What is Journalism For?


4/49

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


5/49

So What is Journalism?

Some suggest that the definition ofjournalism has been exploded by

technology so now anything isseen as journalism.


6/49

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


7/49

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.


8/49

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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqeoCK4udshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqeoCK4uds


9/49

Perhaps in the end

journalism simply meanscarrying on and amplifyingthe conversation of the

people themselves.- James Carey


10/49

Beware: Defining Journalismcan be dangerous.

Beware: Defining Journalismcan be dangerous.

It makes it resistant to changingwith the times

Every generation creates itsown journalism


11/49

But the purpose of journalismremains the same:

To serve the general welfare byinforming the people.


12/49

Discussion Question: What

does journalism mean to you?


13/49

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.


14/49


15/49

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


16/49

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


17/49

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


18/49

Awareness Instinct

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr8SUKsn6k


19/49

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


20/49

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


21/49

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


22/49

In this era, anyone can be a

journalist

The professionals becomeforum leaders


23/49

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


24/49

Discussion Question: How

does this role of a journalist

work? Does it work?


25/49

The Journalists Theory ofDemocracy

We have a free press, yet....(approximately)

3 out of 10 Americans can name their

congressman (Can you?)


26/49


27/49


28/49


29/49


30/49


31/49


32/49


33/49


34/49


35/49

i i


36/49

Big BusinessButs In


37/49


38/49


39/49


40/49


41/49


42/49


43/49


44/49


45/49


46/49


47/49


48/49


49/49

Documents

Group 1 the Mind of a Journalist