INTRO to JOURNALISM

Welcome to Journalism 2016-17!

1. Complete the google form
   • CLICK HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/JtbdftFmfZQx4WfZ2
2. Go to- www.edublogs.org
3. Click the green “sign up” button on the top right
4. Select “I’m a student.”
5. DO NOT click use invite code
6. Enter the same email address you listed on the google form from step 1.
7. DO NOT create a new site – once you’ve registered and are you are in your dashboard just sit tight and await further instruction.

Journalism Syllabus 2016-17

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Journalism  

STEP ONE – Read the following:

“According to the Center for Investigative Journalism at London City University, ”UK and US colleagues tend to define investigative journalism in its moral and ethical purpose and obligation, rather than as a slightly more serious version of ordinary news reporting.

In the service of the Public Interest, our purpose is to uncover corruption, injustice, maladministration and lies.  As a duty to readers and viewers as well as self-protection in a hostile legal environment, investigative journalism seeks above all to tell the documented truth in depth and without fear or favor. It is to provide a voice for those without one and to hold the powerful to account. It’s to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Is it critical and thorough?  Yes, but investigative journalism is skeptical and keen to bring information that someone wants to be keep secret, into the public light.”

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world.

We tell the stories others can’t or won’t — from the rise of the NSA’s domestic surveillance dragnet, to the hidden history of the NFL and concussions, to the secret reality of rape on the job for immigrant women.

Our investigations have helped breathe new life into terrorism cold cases, freed innocent people from jail, prompted U.N. resolutions, and spurred both policy and social change.

We’ve been American television’s top investigative documentary series since 1983, and we’ve won every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 18 Emmy Awards and 18 Peabody Awards. You can watch more than 190 of our documentaries online, for free, any time — and you can find our original digital reporting, interactives and analysis everywhere you are.

We answer to no one but you.

Nils Hanson

The leader of Swedish TV’s investigative magazine Uppdrag Granskning, Nils Hanson, has the following definitions on investigative journalism published in his book Grävande Journalistik from 2009:

• Critical approach – focus is on what does not work and in one way or another can be described as anomaly.
• Important subject – only a question of importance for the common good can motivate the amount of effort and resources, that very well may have to be invested in the research as well as the criticism uttered in the publication.
• Own initiative – journalists/editors decide, what is important.
• Own research – the reporter gathers information and documents, sometimes in spite of tough resistance.
• Own analysis – the information gathered and the documents are evaluated. An expert can assist in the analysis, but publication does not depend on what someone says.
• Exclusivity – the public learns important information, that else would not have been in the open.

STEP TWO – start watching the following:

Okay, so hopefully you have headphones –

BEGIN watching this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/collegeinc/

STEP THREE – complete the following:

With ~five minutes left in the period, complete this short Google Form:

https://goo.gl/forms/1iohCn8zhALNRdUY2