1. Select three of the topics from the list that interest you. Write them on the 3 X 5 card I give you in order of preference. You selections will be posted tomorrow on the blog. I strongly suggest you do a little research before making your selection. The topics are to be narrowly focused and succinct.
2. This is a research paper without the actual paper. In order to demonstrate your thorough research skills, you will write a detailed outline. See example below. Your outline will have a clear thesis, a minimum of 4 points you want to make about your topic and a conclusion. The outline is the end product where you organize the notes, ideas and comments that you have accumulated in your research. You must use a minimum of three outside sources, none of which is Wikipedia. You will also need a conclusion, which addresses the significance of your project: why or how does it matter in terms of contemporary journalism.
Note that reputable sources are edu, org or news source.
Your citations should go onto your outline.
Citation information:
http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-website/manual
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/
3. Your outline will serve as the organizational bases for either a Prezi or power point presentation.
Power point or Prezi:
First image: topic title / anchoring image to appeal to the audience, your name
Minimum of 6 more images that relate directly or associatively to your topic
Qualities of a good Power Point or Prezi
No plain white backgrounds; very, very few words; primarily one or two images that dominate each picture frame.
Remember that you are not reading off the screen; it exists to keep the audience focused and engaged with what you have to say. You may include no more than a 30 second video clip)
Presentation skills: 1. eye contact with audience
2. avoid verbal disfluencies / fillers (ums / ahs / like)
3. project your voice (stand tall; no slouching)
4. practice ahead (organize your thoughts)
5. know what you are talking about.
Your presentation should not exceed 5 minutes.
You have adequate time to complete the
work in class. Please maintain a
respectful level of noise, so as not to
disturb your classmates.
TOPIC CHOICES: You have 13 main topics, with sub topics beneath. There are a total of 65 choices. Explore them!
1. Printers: Find out about famous journalists that devoted themselves to improving the print industry. Show and discuss the progression of printing through the years. How have techniques changed and what impact did each change have on the newspaper industry? Letterpress, Offset Printing.
1. Possible focus: Gutenberg - mechanics of press and cultural impact
2. Printing in the American colonies- Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Glover
3. Mechanized presses
2. Reporters were sometimes found to be “radical” in different periods of history. (muckrakers)
1. Horace Greeley
2. Upton Sinclair
3. Sam Adams
4. Ida Tarbell
5 Matt Taibbi (contemporary journalist)
6. Andrea Elliot (contemporary journalist)
7. Julian Assange
8. Rachel Carlson
3. Coverage of politicians’ private affairs – How does the media handle cover personal situations in politicians’ lives? How have they done this in the past and what developments have occurred?
1. Profumo Affair
2. Chappaquiddick
3. Wilbur Mills
4. Monica Lewisky Bill Clinton
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. Strom Thurmond
7. Eliot Spitzer
8. Neut Gingrich
4. Examine the history of the papers owned and run by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst during the period from 1895 to 1905. How sensational can reporters write without becoming a “yellow journalist”?
1. Joseph Pultizer
2. William Randolph Hurst
3. Fox News (The writer Joseph Campbell says this is Pulizer and Hearst's heir)
Make sure you have read this:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2009/03/bring_back_yellow_journalism.html
Also note sociological shifts and advertising.
5. Beginning with the area of the “Penny Press,” going through today, discuss the cost of newspaper subscriptions and the evolution of advertising. Consider how advertising helps finance production costs? How much revenue is generated today vs. years ago? How does the industry decide on the price of the ads?
1. Penny Press and Benjamin Day
2. The Herald and James Gordon Bennett
3. Walt Whitman as an editor during Civil War
6. Stunt (Immersion) Journalism – Does it take reporters engaging in “dangerous” acts to get stories and to make it in the field? How has it made a difference in society?
1. Nellie Bly
2. Black Like Me
3. Nickel and Dimed
4.Bait and Switch
5. The Year of Living Biblically
7. War coverage of the Civil War / WWI / Vietnam War / Desert Storm. Show how reporting and photography has played a major role in shaping the public’s opinions of U.S. involvement. How has reporting changed over the last 100 years? Where do reporters, called correspondents, get their information? Restrictions?
Choose one only.
8. Trace the course of the woman’s involvement in journalism from the colonial days to the present time. You must choose two names.
1) Anne Catherine Green
2) Fanny Fern
3) Margaret Fuller
4) Middy Morgan
5) Jane Grey Swisshelm
6) Winifred Black (Annie Laurie)
7.) Bessie Bramble,
8. Margherita Arlina Hamm,
9. Julie Hayes Percy
10. Kandia Crazy Horse
11. Nia Hampton
12. Suzanne Gamboa
9. Evolution of the nature of comic strips. Why are some humorous, some adventurous; why are some self-contained in one day, and some continuing stories? What purposes do comic strips serve? You must choose two.
1. Yellow Kid
2. Alison Bechdel
3. Little Orphan Annie
4. Krazy Kat
5. For Better or Worse
6. Boondocks
10. Trace the lines of communication that went up across America from the telegraph to the telephone and radio stations.
1. the technology behind the telegraph, telephone and radio- how it changed communication.
2. Roosevelt's "fireside chats" and Clinton's radio broadcasts
11. Music and music videos have made a huge impact on the youth of America. Show how forms of music have changed over the past 50 years in equipment, as well as the variety of content available. What change in the music industry took place when MTV aired? How has MTV changed from the original format? Trace the history. Don’t forget to touch on ratings and censorship within the music industry.
1. How the technology has changed in the sharing of music
2. HISTORY OF MTV
12. Minorities have often had difficulties breaking into the media industry historically. Research and discuss historically minorities who have made it in the industry. What challenges did they face? How were they able to break into the industry when so many tried to shove them out? What was it about the people who were successful that helped them to make it? Did they have any advantages?
1.Newsroom Diversity- review of the following article
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/newsroom-diversity-a-casualty-of-journalisms-financial-crisis/277622/ This project involves reading the article and presenting an analysis. (See me)
2. Charlayne Hunter-Gault
3. Bob Herbert, Amy Holmes, Cornell West
4. Tavis Smiley, Donna Brazile, Roland Martin
5. Latino voices in the newsroom: Natalie Morales, Soledad O'Brien. Veronica Villafañe
13. How and why does the media work as a “watch dog” or society?
1. check out current investigative reporting-
http://www.ire.org/blog/extra-extra/
2. Bill Dedman's 1988 investigation, The Color of Money for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders.
3. Seymour Hersh's stories on the My Lai massacre were distributed by the Dispatch News Service during the Vietnam War and won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970; in 2004, Hersh reported for The New Yorker on torture inside the Abu Ghraib prison by members of a military police unit of the U.S. Army Reserve during the Iraq War
4. Watergate: Woodward and Bernstein
How do I write an outline?
Note that this is generic and should be adapted to your topic.
Presentation Outline Template
If you have written a thorough outline, you should be able to pass it off to someone else, who could write your paper! Keep that in mind, when you are including details. Also do not forget to include proper citations.
citation information again:
Citation information:
http://www.citationmachine.net/mla/cite-a-website/manual
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/
Presentation Rubric---Remember that your presentation should be on a thumb drive, the exception being if you have a Prezi
Rubric for Presentations
Category
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Scoring Criteria
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Total Points
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Score
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Organization
(15 points)
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The type of presentation is appropriate for the topic and
audience.
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5
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Information is presented in a logical sequence.
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5
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Presentation appropriately cites requisite number of references.
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5
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Content
(45 points)
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Introduction is attention-getting and uses a hook sentence, as one would in an essay. Lays out the topic well and establishes a framework for the rest of the presentation.
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5
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Any technical terms are well-defined in language appropriate for the target audience.
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5
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Presentation contains accurate information.
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10
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Material included is relevant to the overall message/purpose.
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10
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Appropriate amount of material is prepared, and points made that are supported though visuals that contain only a minimum of text.
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10
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There is an obvious conclusion summarizing the presentation.
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5
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Presentation
(40 points)
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Speaker maintains good eye contact with the audience and is appropriately animated (e.g., gestures, moving around, etc.).
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5
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Speaker uses a clear, audible voice.
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5
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Delivery is poised, controlled, and smooth.
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5
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Good language skills and pronunciation are used.
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5
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Visual aids are well prepared, informative, effective, and not
distracting.
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5
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Length of presentation is no more than 5 1/2 minutes. Warning given at the 4 1/2 and 5.
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5
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Information was well communicated.
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10
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Score
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Total Points
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100
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