TABLE #1: Nancy
Crelau Nazareth Music Dept.
Table #2: Tracy Ford
Table #3: Ken Riemer
Table #4: Sara
Doucette
Table #5: Sgt. Chad
Groh
Table #6: Andrea
Scotney
Table #7: Andy Episcopo
Table #8: Molly
Clancy
Table #9: Allen W.
Shannon
Table #10: Heather
Roffe
Table #11: Debi
Brenner
Table #12: Jim Belair
Table #13: Ian
Mortimer
Table #14: Jack
Elliott
Table #15: Paul
MacAuley
Table #16: Ssgt.
Ariane Perry
Table #17: Jennifer Sanfilippo
Table #18:
Table #19: Sydney
Greaves
Table #19: Mary Ann
Monley
Table #20: Sean Hardy
Table #21: Nicky
Sahli
Table #22: Todd Ford
Table #23: Mac
Wormley
Table #24: David
Walling
Table #25: Rebecca
Carbonel
Table #26: Safa
Robinson
Table #27: Fred Sahli
Table #28: Sarah
Carpino
Table #29: Kristen
Murphy
Table #30: Dan
Aspenleiter
Table #31: Paul
Aspenleiter
Table #32: Kathy
Aspenleiter
Table #33: Tom
Aspenleiter
Table #34: Officer
Smith
Table #35: Page
O’Neil
Table #36: Asia
Collins
Table #37: Bill
Kuzila
What makes a story news worthy?
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
Lord Northcliffe, British publisher 1865-1922
Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.
Kurt Loder, American journalist, b. 1945
Kurt Loder, American journalist, b. 1945
Learning targets:
I can integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
I can analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
What Makes Something Newsworthy?
Factors Journalists Use to Gauge How Big a Story Is By Tony Rogers
Over the years editors, reporters and journalism professors have come up with a list of factors or criteria that help journalists decide whether something is newsworthy or not. They can also help you decide HOW newsworthy something is. Generally, the more of the factors below that can be applied to your event or story, the more newsworthy it’s bound to be.
Impact or Consequences
Generally, the greater the impact a story has, the more newsworthy it is. Events that have on impact on your readers, that have real consequences for their lives, are bound to be newsworthy.
An obvious example would be the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In how many ways have all of our lives been affected by the events of that day? The greater the impact, the bigger the story.
Conflict
If you look closely at the stories that make news in any given day, chances are most of them will have some element of conflict. Whether it’s a dispute over banning books at a local school board meeting, bickering over budget legislation in Congress, or the ultimate conflict – war – conflict is almost always newsworthy.
Conflict is newsworthy because as human beings we’re naturally interested in conflict. Think of any book you’ve ever read or movie you’ve ever watched – they all had some type of conflict. Without conflict, there would be no literature or drama. Conflict is what propels the human drama.
Imagine two city council meetings. At the first, the council passes its annual budget unanimously with little or no argument. In the second, there is violent disagreement. Some council members want the budget to provide more city services, while others want a bare-bones budget with tax cuts. The two sides are entrenched in their positions and in the city council chambers the conflict erupts into a full-scale shouting match,
Which story is more interesting? The second, of course. Why? Conflict. Conflict is so interesting to us as humans that it can even make an otherwise dull-sounding story – the passage of a city budget – into something utterly gripping. And the ultimate conflict – war – is always a huge story.
Loss of Life/Property Destruction
There’s an old saying in the news business: If it bleeds, it leads. What that means is that any story involving loss of human life – from a fire to a shooting to a terrorist attack - is bound to be newsworthy. Likewise, nearly any story that involves property destruction on a large enough scale – a house fire is a good example - is also bound to be news.
Many stories have both loss of life and property destruction – think of the house fire in which several people perish. Obviously loss of human life is more important than property destruction, so write the story that way.
Proximity
Proximity has to do with how close an event is geographically is to your readers or viewers. A house fire with several people injured might be big news in your hometown newspaper, but chances are no one will care in the next town over. Likewise, wildfires in California usually make the national news, but clearly they’re a much bigger story for those directly affected.
Prominence
Are the people involved in your story famous or prominent? If so, the story becomes more newsworthy. For example, if an average person is injured in a car crash, chances are that won’t even make the local news. But if the president of the United States is hurt in a car crash, it makes headlines around the world.
Prominence can apply to politicians, movie stars, star athletes, CEOs – anyone who’s in the public eye. But it doesn't have to mean someone who’s famous worldwide. The mayor of your town probably isn't famous, even locally. But he or she is prominent in your town, which means any story involving him or her is likely to be more newsworthy. Prominence can apply on a local, national or international level.
Timeliness
In the news business we tend to focus on what’s happening this day, this hour, this minute. So events that are happening now are often more newsworthy than those that happened, say, a week ago.
Another factor that relates to timeliness is currency. This involves stories that may not have just happened but instead have an ongoing interest to your audience. For example, the rise and fall in gas prices is something that’s been happening for several years, but it’s a story that’s still relevant to your readers, so it has currency.
Novelty
Another old saying in the news business goes, “When a dog bites a man, no one cares. When the man bites back – now that’s a news story.” The idea, of course, is that any deviation from the normal, expected course of events is something novel, and thus newsworthy
ASSIGNMENT BELOW. DUE WEDNESDAY, November 30 by the end of class; otherwise by midnight, if you receive extended time.
In class or if you are absent, you are responsible for the following:
1. Open a word document
2. Please read the following 7 articles and decide what makes
each newsworthy based upon the above criteria. There may be more than one factor. Note that this is all current news.
3. Using this format, write out the headline, say why the article is newsworthy and copy and paste some supporting evidence from the text.
4. As you read the articles, be aware of the paragraph formatting. What is their length?
3. Using this format, write out the headline, say why the article is newsworthy and copy and paste some supporting evidence from the text.
4. As you read the articles, be aware of the paragraph formatting. What is their length?
Article 1: from San Francisco Chronicle
Woman finds out the hard way that a slice of pizza is not a valid form of ID
A college-aged woman who hoped to enter Monkey Bar in Amherst, Massachusetts last week was upset to learn that her slice of pizza did not suffice as a form of ID.
Just after midnight, the 21-year-old woman attempted to enter the bar while holding a slice of pizza (A tortellini slice from Antonio's, in case you were wondering). When the bouncer requested that she show her ID, she "instead attempted to present a slice of pizza," per the official report. When the unnamed woman was informed, regrettably, that a wad of bread, tomato, and cheese isn't very informative as to one's proof of age, she slapped the bouncer.
Police then got involved and issued her a trespass notice, meaning that she and her pizza would need to stay away from the establishment.
Article 2: from Boston Globe
Harvard scientists reveal physics behind molasses disaster
By William J. Kole
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — one of Boston’s most peculiar disasters — killed 21 people, injured 150 others, and flattened buildings when a giant storage tank ruptured.
Now Harvard University researchers think they know why the wave of sticky stuff claimed so many lives: A winter chill rapidly cooled the molasses as it streamed through the streets, complicating rescuers’ frantic efforts to free victims.
A team of experts who studied the disaster to gain a better understanding of fluid dynamics concluded that cold temperatures quickly thickened the syrupy mess, which might have claimed few if any lives had it occurred in spring, summer, or fall.
Team leader Nicole Sharp said she hopes the findings — presented last week at a conference of the American Physical Society — will shed new light ‘‘on the physics of a fascinating and surreal historical event.’’
Article 3: from Democrat and Chronicle
Study: Poor children most likely to lack vaccinations
by Justin Murphy
While it is common to hear of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children for religious or philosophical reasons, the more pressing concern is poor children who are unintentionally missing part of their vaccination series.
That finding, published this month in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, comes from a new study of New York state school children outside of New York City. It shows that districts and health care providers would be wise to make sure all students whose parents wish for them to be vaccinated actually get the shots.
New York allows only medical and religious vaccination exemptions. The researchers correlated those numbers with the number of children who actually lack vaccinations, as well as a variety of socioeconomic factors.
They found that children in wealthy districts, with a median household income of more than $100,000, were more than three times as likely to have a religious vaccination exemption as children in poor districts.
Those numbers, though, are quite small. Even in the wealthy districts, just one in 172 students has a religious exemption, and medical exemptions are even more uncommon.
In poor districts, though, about one in 40 students lacks a full immunization series, compared with one in 75 in the wealthiest districts. That shows that parental choice is not the main obstacle to full immunization of New York children.
“While religious exemptions are associated with higher socioeconomic status, the effect of these exemptions is small compared with unintended underimmunization, which disproportionately occurs in the economically challenged districts,” the authors wrote. “Public health practitioners should continue to enforce effective vaccination exemption policies and carefully examine barriers to vaccination among children in poorer school districts.”
In Monroe County, 15 schools have at least 5 percent of students who lack full vaccination, according to 2013-14 data. Eleven of them are private religious schools while the other four are in the Rochester City School District.
Just 64 percent of the 27 students at the Talmudic Institute of Upstate New York in Rochester had a full vaccination, by far the lowest rate locally.
Article 4 from Chicago Tribune
Police fatally shoot man who shot 2 others
by Elvia Malagon
An adult man was fatally shot by Chicago police after wounding two others, one fatally, early Friday in the Homan Square neighborhood, officials said.
Kevin Navarro, first deputy superintendent for the Chicago Police Department, said officers were responding about 12:25 a.m. Friday to a call of gunfire near the intersection of Harrison Street and Central Park Avenue in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.
When the officers arrived at the scene, they saw a man shooting another man while standing over him, Navarro said. The officers exited their vehicles and engaged the shooter. At some point, the officers fatally wounded the shooter, Navarro said.
The man, who had not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Article 5: from the New York Times
Republicans Divided Between Romney and Giuliani for Secretary of State
WASHINGTON — Rival factions of Republicans are locked in an increasingly caustic and public battle to influence President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for secretary of state, leaving a prominent hole in an otherwise quickly formed national security team that is unlikely to be filled until next week at the earliest.
Trump’s choice for secretary of state, leaving a prominent hole in an otherwise quickly formed national security team that is unlikely to be filled until next week at the earliest.
The debate inside Mr. Trump’s wide circle of formal and informal advisers — pitting supporters of one leading contender, Mitt Romney, against those of another, Rudolph W. Giuliani — has led to the kind of dramatic airing of differences that characterized Mr. Trump’s unconventional and often squabbling campaign team.
And it traces the outlines of the enduring split in the Republican Party between establishment figures who scoffed at Mr. Trump’s chances of victory and the grass-roots insurgents who backed him as a disrupter of the Washington power structure.
The most publicly vocal faction has been the group opposed to Mr. Romney, which has questioned whether he would be loyal after his searing criticism of Mr. Trump during the campaign. But Mr. Trump himself has told aides that he believes Mr. Romney “looks the part” and would make a fine secretary of state, a senior Trump official said on Thursday. Mr. Trump, who is always difficult to read and is capable of changing his mind at any minute, has also praised Mr. Giuliani in recent conversations.
Even Thanksgiving did not provide a reprieve from the extraordinary public efforts to cast doubt on Mr. Romney. Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said on Twitter that she had received “a deluge” of concern from people warning against picking Mr. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor.
Those raising concerns about Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and an early and loyal supporter of Mr. Trump, have said they fear that his tangle of foreign business ties could lead to a damaging confirmation battle. They also worry that Mr. Giuliani lacks the vigor for the globe-trotting job.
Both Mr. Romney and Mr. Giuliani have made their interest in the role known to Mr. Trump. But while Mr. Giuliani has been very public about his intentions — angering Mr. Trump at times with his statements — Mr. Romney has been more reserved.
Mr. Romney, who was mocked in 2012 when he described Russia as the greatest geopolitical foe of the United States, has seen his stock in the Republican Party rise since his loss to President Obama, although he is still viewed skeptically by the party’s grass-roots. His allies believe that his position on Russia has been vindicated, but it is starkly at odds with Mr. Trump’s stated desire for a better relationship with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
Privately, Mr. Giuliani has expressed his frustration at going from front-runner for secretary of state to a contender who has to convince Mr. Trump of his strengths. He is particularly irritated over the focus on his business ties.
The option of a third person like General Kelly has gained currency in recent days inside the transition team. A respected leader, General Kelly served as the senior military assistant to former Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta. He led the Southern Command, responsible for all United States military activities in South and Central America, for four years under Mr. Obama. And his appointment would fit Mr. Trump’s inclination toward putting people with combat experience in senior foreign policy roles.
Article 6: from the Atlanta Constitution Journal
Trump nominates billionaire voucher proponent to lead USDOE
President-elect Donald Trump today nominated controversial school-choice activist and billionaire Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Education Department.
A high-profile Republican donor from Michigan, DeVos is a polarizing nominee as she’s devoted her efforts to creating escape routes from public schools. DeVos, 58, is married to Dick DeVos, the former president of Amway and of the Orlando Magic NBA franchise . He once ran unsuccessfully for governor of Michigan. Amway was founded by his father.
Betsy DeVos leads the American Federation for Children, which describes its mission as “promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and Education Savings Accounts. … We believe public education must be defined as providing families with the public funding they need to choose the education they determine is best for their children.”
DeVos’ background is a fit for Trump’s plans to boost school choice in the U.S., particularly for high-poverty students. She is on the board of directors for the Great Lakes Education Project, which advocates for school choice and charter schools. DeVos and her husband led a failed effort to amend the Michigan constitution to provide vouchers that would allow students to attend private schools at public expense. That’s a centerpiece of Trump’s education plan. He would invest $20 billion in federal money toward school choice, and expect states to kick in $110 billion of their own money, to provide $12,000 each in school choice funds to the 11 million school-age children living in poverty.
Under her leadership we will reform the U.S. education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back so that we can deliver world-class education and school choice to all families,” said Trump.
Here are two distinctly different reactions to the selection of DeVos.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said:
Betsy DeVos is an outstanding pick for Secretary of Education. She has a long and distinguished history championing the right of all parents to choose schools that best ensure their children’s success. Her allegiance is to families, particularly those struggling at the bottom of the economic ladder, not to an outdated public education model that has failed them from one generation to the next.I cannot think of a more effective and passionate change agent to press for a new education vision, one in which students, rather than adults and bureaucracies, become the priority in our nation’s classrooms. I congratulate Betsy and look forward to her bold leadership at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Article 7: from Atlanta Black Star NewsBig Brother Is Watching: Police Spending Millions to Track the Social Media Activity of Protesters, Criminals
Police departments across the nation have collectively shelled out nearly $4.75 million in cold hard cash on software used to surveil the social media activity of prominent activists and suspects, according to new research.
The study by the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York-based nonprofit group focused on issues in criminal justice, tracked the spending of 151 local law enforcement agencies who purchased user data from social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
The practice of social media surveillance by law enforcement has gained steam in recent years, as police utilize new software to monitor trends, criminal activity and even protests. But the covert tracking has some people worried that police are now abusing their power by monitoring social demonstrations and targeting specific protesters.
“The numbers we have are massively understated,” Faiza Patel, co-director of the center’s liberty and national security program, told The Washington Post. “But it gives an indication of a phenomenon that is growing rapidly and flying under the radar.”
According to the center’s research, the city of Los Angeles, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the County of Sacramento, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the County of Macomb in Michigan were the top spenders of surveillance software. Each agency spent about $70,000 tracking social media over the past three years.
Tech start-ups like Geofeedia, SnapTrends and Dataminr have appeared in recent years to purchase user data from social media websites and then analyze it to find popular trends, topic and events. That information is then passed along to corporations, nonprofit groups, financial firms and now, law enforcement, for a price, The Washington Post reported.
Earlier this year, the ACLU blasted Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for providing such user information to police agencies, for fear that it was being used to spy on Black activists. The organization asserted that data provided by startups like Chicago-based Geofeedia made it that much easier for law enforcement to monitor social media activity and hashtags used by prominent Black activists and allies.
“Further steps are required if these companies are to live up to their principles and policies by protecting users of all backgrounds engaging in political and social discourse,” the ACLU report read. “So, today, the ACLU of California, the Center for Media Justice and Color of Change are calling on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to commit to concrete changes to better protect users going forward.”
Law enforcement officials have defended their use of the surveillance software and said it has helped them catch criminals who sometimes brag about their crimes online. Social media is also a forum where witnesses often offer up clues about where and when a crime took place.
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