Media & Journalism

Grade 12 Writer's Craft Feature Assignment (Ms. Clark)

Survey: Newspaper Knowledge / Newspaper Orientation Handout / The Fourth Estate

Articles - The Newspaper 

• The Design of Newspapers: Why the News Industry is Changing (Chart: Main Source of News)

• "How to Read a Newspaper" by Walter Cronkite

• Newspaper Layout (PDF very useful for editors)

• Millenials and Print Newspapers: A Surprising Story

• "Why Print News Still Rules "(Opinion piece)

• Inside The Globe and Mail Print Redesign

• "Stop Press? Last Words on the Future of Newspapers"

• The State of News Media 2016

Feature Writing & Fact Checking

• Feature Writing (Detailed & Informative) / Qualities of  a Feature Story (Bullet points)

• "Daniel Radcliff and the Art of The Fact-Check" (The New Yorker)

• "The Top 5 Unbiased World News Websites Free From Censorship" (MUD)

• One Gut Check and Four Steps Students Can Apply to Fact-Check Information

Detecting Bias

• • Media Bias Chart: Version 4.0

  • AllSides (Shows headlines presented by left, centre and right political POVs)

  • Newseum / Today's Front Page

Narrative Non-Fiction Websites

• Canadian National Newspaper Awards:  Winners since 1949 / 1949 Winning Article by Dorothy Howarth

• Professional Writers Association of Canada Award Winners 2017 

• Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting/Feature Writing

  • 2018 Winner, "A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof" by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

• J-Source - The Canadian Journalism Project / Awards

• 50 of Our Best (New York Times)

• More Than 100 Fantastic Articles (the Atlantic)

• Longreads: Best of 2018

• Nieman Storyboard (Harvard Journalism)

• Narrative Magazine

• Award-Winning High School Online Newpapers (USA)

Fact-Checking Websites

• Snopes

• Hoaxy

• Politifact

• Washington Post Fact-Checker

• Youtube DataViewer (Amnesty International)

• FotoForensics.com