Journalism
Below you will find C-SPAN Classroom resources relating to the topics and categories listed above. Click on each title to expand the section and view the featured resources.
Modern Era
Modern Era
Video Clip: Declining Trust in the Media (5:46)
Video Clip: News Literacy Skills and Misinformation (3:23)
Video Clip: Satire vs Fake News (1:38)
Video Clip: Meaningful Journalism and the Conundrum of Paywalls (3:50)
Video Clip: Reporters and Newsroom Accountability (3:20)
Video Clip: Financial Incentives of Fake News and "Click Bait" (1:24)
Bell Ringer: Police Raid of a Kansas Paper and Concerns over Press Freedom (7:41)
Bell Ringer: Freedom of Press in the United States and Around the World (3:19)
Bell Ringer: China and Restrictions on Foreign Media (3:45)
Bell Ringer: Standards of Journalism and Modern Press Coverage (2:59)
Bell Ringer: Social Media as a News Source (1:18)
Bell Ringer: Confirmation Bias (2:24)
Bell Ringer: Ideologically-Oriented Programming (2:24)
Bell Ringer: Cable News and Political Polarization (3:02)
Bell Ringer: Changes in the Way Media Platforms Cover the News (2:57)
Bell Ringer: Accuracy, Polarization and Public Trust in the Press (5:31)
Bell Ringer: Public Trust in the Media (5:44)
Bell Ringer: How Journalists Respond to Accusations of Fake News (4:56)
Bell Ringer: Political Cartoonists as Forecasters (3:09)
Lesson Plan: Student Journalism and the 1st Amendment (9 Clips)
Lesson Plan: U.S. Agency for Global Media (12 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Media Literacy and Fake News (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Privacy and the Press (6 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The State of Modern News Media (7 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The New News - What's Newsworthy? (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Why does misinformation spread? (6 Clips)
Deliberation: What is “Fake News” and How Does It Impact Our Lives? (8 Clips)
Historical Resources
Historical Resources
Video Clip: Democracy and the Role of a Free Press as the Fourth Estate of Government (3:50)
Bell Ringer: The History of Partisanship in the Press (4:38)
Bell Ringer: The Executive Branch and Adversarial Press (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Pentagon Papers and the New York Times Company v. United States (4:20)
Bell Ringer: Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, Student Journalism and First Amendment Rights (3:20)
Bell Ringer: The 1863 New York City Draft Riots in the Media (10:11)
Bell Ringer: Evolution of Journalism of the Last 70 Years (11:05)
Bell Ringer: The White House and Political Cartoons (4 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Female Reporters in the 19th Century (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Choice Board - US Presidents and the Press (14 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Female Journalists During the Vietnam War (11 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Libel Laws and the Press: New York Times v Sullivan (4 Clips)
On This Day: WikiLeaks Release (6 Clips)