I like John Vivian's discussion of news - news is about change, etc. Let's talk about it. Anything going on in the news this week that's about change?
Here's a good discussion of what makes something newsworthy, i.e. gives it news value ... from a handout put up by Ken Blake, journalism instructor at Middle Tennessee State University.
And here's a link to The Capitol Fax Blog at http://www.thecapitolfaxblog.com/ ... anything about change there?
Also: Let's compare what CapFax has on the elections to what the State Journal-Register and the Chicago Tribune have. What differences do you see between the online niche publication and the two newspapers written for a mass readership?
Let's select a story and compare the reader forums. Any political story in the J-R will do, as long as it has reader comments. We'll try to find a comparable story in class.
Then let's look at the live blogging of late-night election returns on CapFax. How does publisher Rich Miller use the interactivity of the 'net to get the news out? To make it available to readers statewide?
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- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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big changes in the news today throughout the country it was election day yesterday for house seats and state seats ( governor etc)
Everything right now in news is regarding the elections..all around the states, especially here in Illinois right now they are still trying to figure out who the new governor is..
The election and voting is the popular topic in the big news right now, which definitely has to do with change and affects everyone in some way or another.
You could not turn on the TV without seeing an election update yesterday because it affects all of us. In regards to the capital fax blog not only does he use a time frame reporting live updates but he allows bloggers to post their own comments on the elections as they are playing out.
There is nothing but news about the election. Yesterday was voting, very important to those in the running. I'm personally glad its over.
Every where you go you some kind of head line about Pat Quin or Bradley,everybody is talking about them. So the local newspaper and people are speaking the news. The election is sparking everybody's interest,waiting to see who is going to turn things around in the upcoming term of governor.
Everything on the news is about the election. With voting happening, it is covering every broadcasting network.
The election/voting is popular in the news right now. They are also focusing on who you will vote on, and whether or not you will vote.
There is so much about the election right now. Everyone is focusing on the newly elected.
So much coverage that is on the news right now is about the election. It's everywhere. The results will affect many people.
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