Fall 2020 JOU 1000 3rd Presentation - Beginnig of Week of August 31, 2020

1. JOU 1000
Introduction to
Journalism
Professor Michael Rizzo
Director, Journalism Program
Division of Mass Communication
College of Professional Studies
Week of August 31, 2020

2. JOU 1000
Introduction to
Journalism
Last class – August 27
Awareness instinct
Purpose of journalism
Elements of journalism

3. JOU 1000
Introduction to
Journalism
Today
More Chapter 1
Good journalism
Basics of writing stories

4. Recap
Journalism builds communities
Journalism needs RELIABLE,
INDEPENDENT, ACCURATE and
COMPREHENSIVE information
Reporters overcome bias with
defensible, rigorous and
transparent reporting.

5. Elements of Journalism
1. Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.
2. Its loyalty is to citizens.
3. Its essence is a discipline of verification.
4. Its practitioners must maintain independence
5. It must serve as a monitor of power.
6. It must provide a forum for public criticism.
7. It must make the significant interesting and
relevant.
8. It must keep the news comprehensive and
proportional.
9. Journalists must exercise their personal conscience.
10. Citizens also have rights and responsibilities to the
news.

6. Assignment to read
Chapter 1: Pages 37-42
And
Handout in BlackBoard:
The basics of journalism
writing skills

7. The Theory of the
Interlocking Public
Readers who are involved
Readers who are interested
Readers who are uninterested
Why do we care about this
theory for journalism?

8. Just like good journalism
builds communities, good
journalism should try to
serve different communities.

9. A variety of story topics
A variety of platforms/ways to
present stories (audio, video,
photos, graphics, interactive)
A variety of ways to tell stories
(inverted pyramid style,
narrative, hourglass)

10. But good journalism sticks to
standards:
• Avoid generalizations
• Provide facts and details not
the reporter’s opinion
• Get diverse perspectives to
the story
• Balance
• Fairness

11. https://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/10/29/13585/coal-industrys-go-law-firm-withheld-evidence-
black-lung-expense-sick-miners

14. The basics of good journalism
Tell the 5Ws
Who
What
Where
When
Why

15. PLUS Reaction/Comments
(quotes/soundbites in TV/
actualities in Radio) from
people connected to your
story.
Quotes should add context,
emotion and/or insight that only
the interviewee can provide.

16. News story components:
Lede
Nut graf (if needed)
Middle (sometimes called
body) of the story
Ending

17. Many hard news story ledes
are typically written
using the Inverted pyramid

19. The inverted pyramid uses a
SUMMARY LEDE. That’s when
you have the key facts (5Ws)
at the beginning of the story.
Summary ledes should aim
to be ONE sentence of about
35 words. If a second sentence
is needed, make that about
35 words too.

20. Attribution:
Tell the reader where you got
your information from.
Attribution at the end of a
sentence is OK in print.
If you observe something – NO
attribution is needed.

21. WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces on Tuesday recovered the remains of two American service members
killed in the crash of an Air Force plane in Afghanistan, the U.S. military command in Kabul said. They also
retrieved what they believe is the plane’s flight data recorder.
They were the only two people aboard the Air Force E-11A electronic surveillance aircraft when it went
down on Monday in Ghazni province, officials said. Their identities have not been publicly announced,
pending notification of their relatives.
The statement from Kabul said the cause of the crash is under investigation, but there are no indications
that it was downed by enemy fire.
The Taliban hold much of Ghazni province. Monday’s plane crash there is not expected to derail U.S.-Taliban
peace talks if the crash investigation determines, as expected, that it was not the result of hostile action.
The U.S. and the Taliban are negotiating a reduction in hostilities or a cease-fire to allow the signing of a
peace agreement that could bring home an estimated 13,000 American troops and open the way to a
broader post-war deal for Afghans.
A journalist in the area, Tariq Ghazniwal, said Monday that he saw the burning aircraft. He told The
Associated Press that he saw two bodies and that the front of the aircraft was badly burned but its body
and tail were hardly damaged.
The crash site is about six miles from a U.S. military base, Ghazniwal said. Local Taliban were deployed to
protect the crash site, he said. In its statement Tuesday, the U.S. military command in Kabul thanked local
Afghans for treating the remains with respect. It said that after removing the remains, U.S. forces destroyed
the remnants of the E-11A aircraft.

22. U.S. forces (WHO) on Tuesday
(WHEN) recovered the remains of two
American service members (WHAT)
killed in the crash of an Air Force
plane in Afghanistan (WHY and
WHERE), the U.S. military command
in Kabul said (ATTRIBUTION). They
also retrieved what they believe is the
plane’s flight data recorder.

23. Nut graph (sometimes written nut graf)

24. Nut grafs are not needed IF you
provide the key facts (5Ws) in the
lede.
Nut grafs are always needed for
narrative style writing when the
lede is NOT in inverted pyramid
style.

25. KARUBAMBA, Rwanda (AP) — Nobody lives here any more. Not the expectant mothers
huddled outside the maternity clinic, not the families squeezed into the church, not the
man who lies rotting in a schoolroom beneath a chalkboard map of Africa.
Everybody here is dead. Karubamba is a vision from hell, a flesh-and-bone junkyard of
human wreckage, an obscene slaughterhouse that has fallen silent save for the roaring
buzz of flies the size of honeybees. With silent shrieks of agony locked on decaying
faces, hundreds of bodies line the streets and fill the tidy brick buildings of this village,
most of them in the sprawling Roman Catholic complex of classrooms and clinics at
Karubamba’s stilled heart.
Karubamba is just one breathtakingly awful example of the mayhem that has made
little Rwanda the world’s most ghastly killing ground. Karubamba, 30 miles northeast of
Kigali, the capital, died April 11, six days after Rwanda President Juvenal Habyarimana,
a member of the Hutu tribe, was killed in a plane crash whose cause is still
undetermined.
The paranoia and suspicion surrounding the crash blew the lid off decades of
complex ethnic, social and political hatreds. It ignited a murderous spree by
extremists from the majority Hutus against rival Tutsis and those Hutus who
had opposed the government. This awesome wave of remorseless mayhem
has claimed 100,000 to 200,000 lives, say U.N. and other relief groups. Many
were cut down while cowering in places traditionally thought safe havens:
churches, schools, relief agencies.

26. Middle/Body of story
Provide other details
Add information and quotes
from people connected to
your story.
Provide background and
context

27. Ending of story
Look ahead to what’s next
Provide additional information
Use a quote
Recap the story (but don’t
just duplicate the lede and don’t
make this your standard ending –
the ones above are better choices)

28. Assignments for the start
of this week:
Write a 75 word story applying the
inverted pyramid style and writing
a summary lede using the facts in
BlackBoard from: West Bank
March Assignment for JOU 1000
See more information in the assignment.

29. Assignments for the start
of this week:
Read the handout Associated Press
Style Guidelines for Journalism
Writing posted in BlackBoard.
Start applying the appropriate
AP Style to your journalism
writing assignments.

30. STAY WELL
AND
STAY SAFE