COM CO 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Journalistic Objectivity, Citizen Journalism, The Huffington Post
9 Apr 2017
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Com chapter 11: journalism (textbook: non journalists engage in citizen journalism joining professionals in blogging, tweeting and posting news on facebook, aggregators: (ex. They are sometimes asked to lend their expertise to help solve community problems: whatever the medium, the skills of news gathering and storytelling are essential to good journalism. What news is: the criteria that professional reporters and editors use to decide what news is can be summarized in three words, relevance, usefulness. Interest: the context for these three criteria is supplied by the audience the reader, listener or viewer. The potential impact of a story is another way of measuring its relevance and usefulness. The wider and heavier the impact, the better the story: conflict. Conflict is a recurring theme in all storytelling, whether the stories told are journalism, literature or drama: novelty. People or events may be interesting and therefore newsworthy just because they are unusual or bizarre: prominence.
