Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Newspaper Layout

Layout _ Design Key Terms


Precomputer


More recent

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Go forth


Stories for the week:

Local


Fontaine, T. (2014, September 29). Northern Cree occupy Manitoba Hydro dam over longstanding grievances. APTN National News. Retrieved from http://aptn.ca/news/2014/09/29/protest-manitoba-hydro/





National/North American


Wherry, A. (2014, September 28). The week everyone was worried about Parliament. Macleans.ca. Retrieved from http://www.macleans.ca/politics/the-week-everyone-was-worried-about-parliament/
Mitrovica, A. (n.d.). The Levant/Calandra double act: When nobodies make the non-news. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/09/29/the-levantcalandra-double-act-when-nobodies-make-the-non-news/

International  

Simms, C. D. (2014). A rising tide: the case against Canada as a world citizen. The Lancet Global Health, 2(5), e264–e265. doi:10 .1016/S2214-109X(14)70199-8
Froomkin, D. (2014, September 25). Defense Contractors Are Making a Killing. Retrieved from https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/defense-contractors-making-killing/

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Embedded videos

Divine right of kings

    


Tim Minchin thinking critically.

 




Third class

More about history

Star Chamber, Corn Laws, The role of the press in democratic processes.
Pamphleteers, broadsheets, quartos etc.



The centrality of journalism in democratic societies:
"...ordinary citizens do not perceive the world directly but only through the set of forms and stereotypes provided by the press. People could still comprehend directly their immediate environment, but they saw the wider world that impinged on their lives only through a media-constructed “pseudo-environment.” Lippman (1922) in Schudson (2006)


Basics of Journalistic Writing

Portfolios

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Second Class-- History

Guest Lecturer: Dr. John Blaikie.

Concepts:

First, Second, Third and Fourth Estates

Star Chamber

Stamp Act

Corn Laws

Seditious Libel

Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Assignment


Assignment: Each week select three news stories to analyze on your blog. Pick one local, one national, and one international story. Your blog entry should describe why theses stories caught your attention. Make blog posts 250 words and include links to your original sources. 

First Post

First meeting of Print journalism for 2014.