Definition:
Define “Journalism” in 1-3 sentences.

The telling of current events that are news worthy through
news papers, magazines, and the internet.
List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.

TITLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
1 Timliness-recent, weather, sports score

2. Prominence- carring about famous people, celeberties, royal subjects, magazines

3. Proximaty-we care about the news thats close to us, weather, local, traffic

4.Significance- the bigger the event the more people are impacted by it, japan earth quake, huge events, 9/11

5. Unusualness- we care about things that dont happen ver often, unusual, hurricanes, prince getting married in london

6. Human Interest stories- Feel good stories, rescuing a kitten from tree, baby panda




What are the advantages of print journalism?
1.One advantage of print journilisim is the stories are more in detail

2.You controll what you read and how much you read

3.Physically tangable


What are the advantages of broadcast journalism?

1.Much more current

2.You get to phisically see and hear it, live video

3.Easy access, where ever


Why has online journalism (convergent media) become so popular? Because its the best of each media. It takes the best of both worlds and can be updated at any second, live vedio stream on web pages, putting news papers out of business, easy to accsess and its free.