Ashford 6 Week 5 Discussion 2 Your initial .docx

Ashford 6: - Week 5 - Discussion 2
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and y
ou have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to
your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your
initial post and the depth of your responses.
Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric
for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Telling the Real Story: A True Humanitarian Approach
Ustream tells stories that break the mold of what appears to be f
ormulaic coverage of on-going humanitarian
crises such as famine and HIV stories. For example, evaluate th
e impact of the approach taken by African
documentary producer and correspondent Sorious Samura in his
report on foreign based charities in Africa
on How to Make a Difference in Africa
. Is there an alternative to the top-down approach which has
dominated the aid industry for decades? How ethical were the o
perations of an organization called AfriKids
in Ghana? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
Your initial response should be 250-300 words in length. Your c
laims should be supported by the text and/or

other academic resources. Respond to at least two of your class
mates’ postings by Day 7. When responding
to your classmates, answering with an “I agree” or “Disagree” w
ill not be regarded as an adequate posting.
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Ashford 6: - Week 5 - Discussion 1
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and y
ou have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to
your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your
initial post and the depth of your responses.
Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric
for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Isn't One Platform Enough?
What are the journalistic and professional practice arguments fo
r and against asking journalists to work
across all platforms? Reflect on the insights that Ben Hammersl
ey shares in Chapter 13. Consider the

advantages and disadvantages of this approach.
Your initial response should be 250-300 words in length. Your c
laims should be supported by the text and/or
other academic resources. Respond to at least two of your class
mates’ postings by Day 7. When responding
to your classmates, answering with an “I agree” or “Disagree” w
ill not be regarded as an adequate posting.
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Ashford 6: - Week 5 - Instructor Guidance
MULTI-TASKING:
Ever wonder if reporters should carry cameras with them on ass
ignment? Here
is a shot that La Grande (Ore.) Observer reporter Kelly Nesbitt
captured while out shooting photos
for a story. I (Dave) worked for The Observer as a reporter and
editor from 1975-77 and from
1981-2004.
Hello everyone!
You've been hired. You have been sent to a remote community i
n Eastern Europe to "cover" the

news. The only hitch is your news agency wants you to do it all.
You must cover all platforms.
How about it? Are you ready?
You've got your laptop computer. The company has also
provided a small, high-def video camera that is easy for you to
operate. You can easily load
video onto your computer for transmission through YouTube or
some other means. You have an
Internet connection.
As you cover breaking news about a river spilling over its banks
in the valley or ongoing reports
about a civil uprising to overthrow the government, you are exp
ected to write daily stories that
you can transmit by e-mail back to the agency. You also are ask
ed to post your comments of
what you are observing on a blog site. But that's not all. Since t
here are radio stations counting
on your reporting, you should plan to file audio reports using yo
ur best announcer's voice.
Fortunately you can use some of this audio to back up the video
s you are taking for the
television stations associated with your news agency.
You are out in the field for six hours that day
photographing the water that is sweeping
through the villages. You check the latest online reports on how
the government protests are
doing. It is approaching late afternoon and you are back in your
quarters. Where do you start?
Do you edit the video, write your e-mail stories, compose your
blog, prepare audio reports or
mix audio with the visual?
The job pays pretty well. But your platforms for expression are

overwhelming. Do you work
eight hours, 10 hours, 12 hours or more a day before turning in
and preparing to go through a
similar routine the next day?
Discussion 1: Isn't one platform enough?
Does this job description seem frustrating, even not doable? Ma
ybe I've exaggerated a bit here
on all the work required, but how long would you be able to con
tinue to provide "journalism" for
these various platforms? Does any journalist have all the skill s
ets? Is burnout possible?
Discussion 1 in Week 5 asks: "Isn't one platform enough?" Read
Ben Hammersley's remarks in
Chapter 13 of our textbook and reflect on: (1) What are the jour
nalistic and professional practice
arguments for and against asking journalists to work across all p
latforms? (2) What are the
advantages/disadvantages of this approach?
While engaging in the work in the first discussion, you are addr
essing the first learning outcome
of Week 5 in which you will:
●
Identify the journalistic and professional practice arguments for
and against
journalists to work across all platforms.
The second learning outcome in Week 5 will have you:
●
Analyze how much journalists should rely on the information pr
ovided by

humanitarian and relief organizations as well as how to guard a
gainst misleading
or hyped representations of crises.
Discussion 2: Telling the real story: A true humanitarian approa
ch
Week 5's second discussion question asks you to probe another
aspect of international
reporting: covering issues of poverty, disease and famine in thir
d-world countries in Africa or
elsewhere. Where do you go to get the story? Are you satisfied
with talking to officials with
human-aid organizations like the Red Cross, CARE Internationa
l or Save the Children? Often
they have excellent background and interesting facts to relate. S
hould you base all of your
information on what a spokesman from CARE, the Red Cross or
a United Nations agency tells
you? Is that the extent of the story? Or should you dig a little de
eper?
Sorious Samura
Specifically, you will examine the impact
that documentary producer/correspondent Sorious
Samura had in his report on foreign-based charities in Africa in
his How to Make a Difference in
Africa
. Should a reporter trust everything to be forthright and complet
e when information is
being passed on by an agency head or representative? How ethic

al were the operations of the
AfriKids organization in Ghana? What alternative is there to the
top-down approach that has
dominated the human-aid industry for decades?
As in the other discussions in this class, your initial response to
each question should be at least
250 words. Support your claims by the text and/or other academ
ic resources. You will need to
respond to at least two of your classmates' initial posts by Day 7
(Monday). Responding earlier
in the discussion week can foster greater class interaction and I
encourage that.
Week 5 Assignment: Final Research Paper / Worth 25 points
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/490828
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/490828
You've spent nearly five weeks studying principles of good repo
rting in this Global Journalism
course. Now is your time to gather together and discuss in your
final research paper many of
the things you have picked up in the five weeks. Your final rese
arch paper is due next Monday
(the final day of class). How would you as an international jour
nalist choose to analyze and
report the news as it relates to war coverage? You will research
and evaluate the report of a
single incident related to an international military conflict some
where in the world. The recent
wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria come to mind, but you migh
t choose to address another
global conflict in a place like Africa, Asia or Central America.
Once you have selected a conflict area in the world, you will:

(1) Identify the
obstacles that are faced by international correspondents in that a
rea.(2) Describe the structure
of the news organizations in the area of the country that the con
flict is taking place. (3) Compare
and contrast the freedoms of the press in the country where the
conflict is taking place and the
freedoms that journalists have in the United States. (4)
Describe the steps that an international
correspondent should take in identifying and verifying sources f
or the story. And (5) Discuss
strategies that the international journalist should use in understa
nding the social and political
culture of the area in which he/she is reporting.
Click on "Final Research Paper" under Week 5 (on the left)
and particularly note the eight steps
in preparing the final research paper.
Here is the "Grading Rubric" I will be using to evaluate your pa
per. These include:
Content Criteria / Points possible
●
Identifies the obstacles faced by international correspondents.
/ 3
●
Describes the structure of the news organizations in the area of t
he country that the
conflict is taking place. / 3
●
Compares and contrasts the freedoms of the press in the country
where the conflict is
taking place and the freedoms that journalists have in the Unite

d States. / 5
●
Describes the steps that an international correspondent should ta
ke in identifying and
verifying sources for the story. / 5
●
Discusses strategies that the international journalist should use
should use in
understanding the social and political culture of the area in whic
h he/she is reporting. / 5
Critical thinking / Points possible
● Explanation of Issues / .5
● Student's position / .5
Creative thinking / Points possible
● Solving problems / .5
Written communication / Points possible
● Control of syntax and mechanics / .7
● APA formatting / .6
●
Page requirement (8-10 pages -- excluding the title and referenc
e pages) / .6
●
Resource requirement (minimum five-to-eight scholarly sources
) / .6
(Note:
Points in other categories might also be reduced if the paper fal

ls under the
specified length.)
Please also note that your final paper would normally be due no
later than midnight (your time
zone) on
Monday, May 30. However because Monday is a holiday (Memo
rial Day), I will
allow you to submit your paper without penalty on Tuesday, Ma
y 31. After that, late-paper
deductions (- 10 percent per day) apply through Thursday, so be
sure that you are staying on
schedule! Papers are not accepted after Thursday. If the text of
your paper begins to approach
2,000 words, you can begin to put together your conclusion. Yo
u will be close to the minimum
assignment length.
Since the paper is worth 25 percent of your overall grade,
it would be worth your while to
follow all the instructions carefully. I also recommend that you
utilize the Writing Center's Writing
Reviser Tool, which you can access via the Learning Resources
link on the left. Your final
research paper should be as error free as possible, so l
eave time in the writing process for
proofreading.
Sometimes a family member or friend can provide a helpful eye
in looking over a
paper for misspellings, incomplete thoughts and/or grammatical
errors. Ask them to circle what
they see and you can make corrections.
The following are links to short articles and podcasts offering s
ound advice about proofreading:
1. Proofreading Tips (from "Grammar Girl")
2. 8 Proofreading Tips and Techniques

(from "Daily Writing Tips")
3. Proofreading (University of Wisconsin Writing Center)
Here are some sites about computer systems and software that a
ssist with proofreading:
1. Grammarly (an automated, online proofreader)
2. PaperRater (an automated, online proofreader)
3. MS Word Optimization
(a checklist for leveraging Word as an automated proofreader)
Finally, if you have any questions about the final paper or this c
ourse, don't hesitate to contact
me via email at: [email protected] .
It has been my pleasure working with you as your instructor for
JRN 339 Global Journalism. My
best to each of you in the final days of class and as you move fo
rward.
Dave Stave
References:
"Basic Proofreading Tools in MS Word 2012" [Screencast]. Dav
e's Easy Tutorials
(Tutorial 9). Retrieved June 10, 2013
from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBrluvBO8gY&feature=play
er_embedded
Owen, J. & Purdey, H. (Eds.). (2009).
International news reporting: Frontlines and deadlines.
Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Nesbitt, K. (2013). Photo displayed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBrluvBO8gY&feature=play
er_embedded

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