week 3 notes

 

When taking photos and embedding for an article/story, think about:

• the limitations of photography
• capturing the shot you want
• how to frame your subject
• how will you convey the emotion you are trying to capture
• a good idea is to shoot big, since you can shrink but not enlarge due to pixelization
• don't forget to compress for web optimization!

Lighting Types:

• natural: ambient or available
• flash
• both

be creative and don't let limitations set you back. think outside the box!
 

Book assignment week 2: Target Audiences & Where to Find a Story!

Target Audiences & Their Importance:

News must be directed at & relevant to a certain group of people - you're target audience. An audience can be a broad or narrow scope, ranging from international, national and local. A story can be targeted at people from all backgrounds with all interests, or at people of one specific background, or with one specific common interest. 

In order to appeal to your target audience, you must completely understand them in order to write in a way that grabs and keeps their attention and know what information is relevant to whom.

Common inspiration for news stories come from:

• court cases
• local & national government events
• stock market & compay reports
• emergency services: police, fire, rescue, ambulence, coast guard
• product launches
• press releases from any organization
• news wire services
• anniversaries (important people, events)
• news about your own publication, readers or affiliates
• news from other media outlets
• campaigns, opinion polls, surveys

Group Human Interest Story

Facebook Finds Art
Facebook brings more than people together, it has the capabilities to help a son recover pieces of his late father’s art that he thought were gone forever.

Drawings and paintings by the late Damian Canello who passed away 13 years ago, were recently recovered using the social networking site Facebook. Until now, much of Canello’s commercial print art had been sold previous to his passing, or ended up proving itself to be too obscure to recover from commercial magazines or advertising agencies. This left Canello’sonly son, Dylan Canello in possession of very few pieces of his father’s art in which to remember him by. Recently, a large amount of Damian’s art was reunited with Dylan through Faceboook and an ex-lover of his fathers.


Dylan was contacted by an ex-lover of his father’s after she had found him on Facebook. After speaking back and forth for a couple of days Dylan learned that she had quite a collection of his father’s paintings, drawing, and prints. This collection amounted to far more than Dylan had inherited when his father passed away and he was astonished to find out that this much of his father’s art was still around. When this woman learned what few pieces Dylan possessed of his father’s work, she realized that she could part with her collection of it, knowing that it would mean more to Canello’s only son. She came to grips with parting with Canello’s art that she too had grown to cherish, and mailed all the works Dylan


Dylan, also an artist of many mediums, does not take this gift for granted. He plans to share the completed works, as well as commission other artists to restore or complete his fathers unfinished or uncolored pieces. These artists will be credited in the display of Canello’s pieces, which has the potential to grow into an amazing “rediscovered” art collection.

news sites blogroll

NEWS SITES

• http://www.worldbest.com/news_zines.htm
• http://digg.com/
• http://www.latimes.com/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
• http://www.ap.org/

LOLS:

• http://www.theonion.com/
• http://www.thefakenews.com/

weektwo

Class Notes:

 

Class Vocab:

   

• Presaged: something that foreshadows a future event, something that has prophetic significance, something that holds foresight; prescience.
• Sage: philosopher
• Wordsmith: a person skilled in using words
• Scrutiny: surveillance; close and continuous watching or guarding.
• Corruption: perversion of integrity.
• Watergate Scandal: The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The FBI connected the payments to the burglars to a slush fund used by the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President. As evidence mounted against the president's staff, which included former staff members testifying against them in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations. Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he had attempted to cover up the break-in. After a series of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes; he ultimately complied. 
• Era: a period of time marked by distinctive character, events
• Afflict: to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly orgrievously
• Watchdogism:   

• Fourth Estate: The concept of the Fourth Estate (or fourth estate) is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. It now most commonly refers to the news media; especially print journalism. Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of press reporting of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Earlier writers have applied the term to lawyers, to the queen of England (acting as a free agent, independent of the king), and to the proletariat. The Fourth Estate as described by Thomas Carlyle in his bookOn Heroes and Hero Worship:"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal).
• Pander: Gratify or indulge   
• James Madison: James Madison, Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourthPresident of the United States (1809–1817) and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
  He was the principal author of the United States Constitution, and is often called the "Father of the Constitution". In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, the most influential commentary on the Constitution.
  Madison's most distinctive belief as a political theorist was that the new republic needed checks and balances to protect individual rights from the tyranny of the majority.^[1][2][3][4]
  Although blocked by his foes from the Senate he became a leader in the new House of Representatives, drafting many basic laws. In one of his most famous roles he drafted the first ten amendments to the Constitution and thus is known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights".^[5]Madison worked closely with the President George Washington to organize the new federal government. Breaking with Treasury SecretaryAlexander Hamilton in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party (later called by historians theDemocratic-Republican Party)^[6] in opposition to key policies of the Federalists, especially the national bank and the Jay Treaty. He secretly co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.
  As Jefferson's Secretary of State (1801–1809), Madison supervised the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the nation's size, and sponsored the ill-fated Embargo Act of 1807. As president, he led the poorly prepared nation into the War of 1812 against Great Britain. A series of disasters at the beginning of the war damaged his reputation, but by 1814–15 American forces repulsed major British invasions, the Federalist opposition fell into disarray, and Americans felt triumphant at the end of the war despite its ending in stalemate for both sides. During and after the war, Madison reversed many of his positions. By 1815, he supported the creation of the second National Bank, a strong military, and a high tariff to protect the new factories opened during the war. 
• Determinate: Precisely limited or defined; definite. Conclusively settled; final.
• Relevant: Having a bearing on or connection with the matter at hand.
• Complacency: A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy
• Subsuming: To classify, include, or incorporate in a more comprehensive category or under a general principle
• Soverign: Complete independence and self-government
• Empowered: To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority
• Objective: Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices 
• Subjective: Particular to a given person; personal
• Libel: defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
• Shield Laws: a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
• Prior Restraint: a court order banning publication of unpublished material.
• Fair Use: the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties

week 1 homework.

Write 3 headlines & introductions to news stories of your own:

• Bare Naked Fun at USC's Springfest: Unnamed couple arrested for indecent public exposure at this weekend's free music festival, giving attendees more than they bargained for.
  
• Cruisin' Cruise: Actor caught flying 40 over limit on Highway 1, walks away with a simple warning.
  
• Earthy Trees: Hit band Neon Trees to perform Earth Day concert for tree-planters in hometown of Provo, UT.

Grammy Article Exercise:

• Grammy Nomination Process Under Review: To avoid confusion and mis-awarding of Grammy's, nominations committee has announced a change in how categories are defined.

What is Reporting & Textbook Videos Response:

Reporting answers the questions:

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• How

As quickly, interestingly and clearly as possible.

Specific numbers are useful in headlines & introductions, allowing readers to assess the importance of the story to their lives.

Attributing the facts (attribution) to the source is also important in reporting, reporters must make it known who is giving the information.

A reporter must answer key questions (who, what, when, where, why, how) while making clear where information is coming from.

What is News?

New

(is it new, did it just happen, relative in time)

Factual

(actual witnesses, true, rich facts, statistics, chronological details, etc.)

It’s about people

Relevant to people and could possibly effects them

(Could also be relevant to you)

Dramatic and out of the ordinary

(Great emotions and will spark awareness)

Involves a conflict

new media journalism

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