STUDENT ZONE (BenOrtiz.com/classes)

ELEMENTS of JOURNALISM Part 1

Pick a chapter of your choice from the first six. Write at least one paragraph to summarize that chapter. Follow your summary with at least one paragraph in response to the first half of Elements. One of the following questions might help in formulating your summary/response:

1. What/who does journalism serve?
2. Why is truth the first principle?
3. Who is the journalist's boss?
4. How is verification the essence of journalism?
5. Why should journalists maintain independence from those they cover?
6. What is the journalist's relationship to power?...to the people (citizens)?

Also, the handout from this past week, on different kinds of writing, might help you review.