V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X S The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT x Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Student Dashboard x + - × € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List Defining "News' The traditional open newsroom is called a bullpen. Everyone talks and listens to everyone else. That's what you'll be doing here in these discussions -- learning from each other. So, let's get started! Hollywood's celebrities. They seem to be everywhere in the news. Celebrity dating, celebrity dancing, celebrity brawling, celebrity babies, celebrity divorcing, celebrity "reality" TV, celebrity Tic Tok and Instagram posts. With divisive politics across the country, economies sputtering across Europe, refugees flooding the Continent, American troops still on foreign soil, and so many other pressing issues on the world stage, how can celebrity shenanigans be news? Well, there must be a reason why every media outlet -- including the serious ones like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal -- are covering this stuff. Sure, with the exception of something like Michael Jackson's death they're not always putting it on the front page. But some non-tabloid newspapers do. Broadcast news outlets certainly give it a lot of play. And these stories are internet news staples. Tempting as it may be to bash or defend the starlets and other celebrities who have captivated our interest, that's not what we need to talk about here. We need to focus our attention on what makes news "news" to information consumers -- its audience, timeliness, proximity, impact, conflict, prominence, singularity or oddity and emotion. Is the media's coverage of Hollywood celebrities too much, too little, appropriate, inappropriate, what? From the journalist's perspective, is this coverage valid? - 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:14 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X × The Characteristics of News ChatGPT × Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot Student Dashboard x + x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List Before you engage in discussion of these issues, please make sure you understand what professional journalists consider the definition of news by completing the assigned reading in the following material posted in this week's required reading: . "The Characteristics of News" . Chapter 1 of The News Manual . Chapter 65 in 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook and · Pages 5-8 of the Handbook of Independent Journalism. Then, consider reviewing this video from the Newseum to cement your understanding of the concepts we're exploring here: TEDX What is news? Jaclyn Trop at TEDxDetroit 2013 Your learning objective here is to understand this fundamental building block of the basic news story. - 89°F Sunny ... Q Search 9:14 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X S × The Characteristics of News ChatGPT × Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot Student Dashboard x + x × € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List Your learning objective here is to understand this fundamental building block of the basic news story. Activity: When you're done with your reading, you will craft an informed response to this discussion prompt in which you explain what makes one story more newsworthy than another, with examples. Start by looking at what professional journalists at U.S. newspapers or U.S. broadcast and cable TV outlets have selected as the day's news; you can find links to some major U.S. metropolitan newspapers under Course Resources > Webliography > General Journalism Resources. Compare those headlines to the top news at sites like Yahoo News, Google News or the HuffPost. Select three news stories and explain why they are news. 1. Identify the news characteristic that was leveraged for the news angle in each story. Was it: · Timeliness · Impact · Proximity · Singularity or Oddity . Conflict or Controversy, or · Prominence? 2. Identify the elements of news in each of your three stories by completing this worksheet for each one: 89°F Sunny 9:15 PM 5/18/2024 Q Search T PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 2016 X The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT x Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Student Dashboard x + - × € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List 2. Identify the elements of news in each of your three stories by completing this worksheet for each one: worksheet Headline: Who: What: When: Where: Why: How: URL: 3. Tie this information together by explaining why the story elements you identified made each one news. 4. And if they're news, connect what you concluded about the three news stories to your thinking about whether news media's coverage of celebrities is too much, too little, appropriate, inappropriate, what? 6 Make sure vou sunnort vour explanation with information from the 89°F Sunny Q Search 9:15 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGO × Discussions List - JOUR 2016 X The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Student Dashboard x + X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List OF Celebrities is too much, too little, appropriate, inappropriate, what. 6. Make sure you support your explanation with information from the four assigned readings and the video listed above. Use in-text citations and a reference list in APA style or links like journalists would use in your post. Objective: To identify the characteristics of news in, and evaluate the newsworthiness of published news stories Deadlines: Initial responses to this discussion question should be posted by 11:59 p.m. ET Saturday. You will need to post your answer before you can see anyone else's responses here. Replies to each other's initial responses are due by 11:59 p.m. ET Tuesday. You should comment substantively to at least two of your classmates about their posts as well as respond to any inquiries or comments they may make about your post. Best practice: Before you submit your initial response to the discussion question, click "subscribe to this thread" beneath the message box. This way, you will receive and be able to respond immediately to notices that someone has commented on your remarks, which can help make these discussions more like conversations. 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