Youth Media Reporter | News Literacy (Volume 4: Issue 3)

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Special Announcement Check out our feature podcast from the Tribal Youth Journalist program on our homepage. Looking ahead, "New Technology" will be the next YMR issue on August 15, 2010. Letter from the Guest Editor: Dean Miller, Director, Center for News Literacy (Stony Brook University) News Literacy | Volume 4:Issue 3

Recent Articles Fuzzy Logic: Why Students Need News and Information Literacy Skills A news librarian explains the importance of news and information literacy for students and faculty alike. Understanding News Literacy: A Youth Media Perspective This issue of Youth Media Reporter unpacks this field of news literacy for a youth media audience, bringing a fresh perspective to youth media practice. Can a Democracy Survive without Reliable Information? People who are citizens in an information age have got to learn to think like journalists. News Literacy: A News Lens for Youth Media Youth media practitioners must encourage students to identify real news and information. News literacy as a way to identify and build upon a skill set that youth media programs already aim to build in young people. Media and News Literacy in Seattle Something is missing from our public school curriculum when a high school senior does not know what a journalist does, or why it is important to think about where his or her information is coming from. The Urban Journalism workshop Program: A Case Study For youth media educators, the UJW is a case study that helps present how accuracy is the most important element of news and that correction is necessary to inaccuracy. News Literacy in High School and Middle Grades: Why We Need it Now More than Ever Before All educators have the means to be news literacy instructors. Critical thinking is an end teachers hope to achieve, regardless of content area. Teaching Journalism and News Literacy A high school teacher's experience working with an active student newspaper crew at Palo Alto.

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Within two weeks, the French newspaper Le Monde will run out of cash

Le Monde on The Brink

http://ow.ly/21Edv

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Within two weeks, the French newspaper Le Monde will run out of cash. By
this Monday at noon, candidates to the takeover of the most prestigious
French daily will have disclosed their offers. By June 28, the staff will
vote and make the final decision for the fate of the 66 years-old paper.

More importantly, the newspaper's independence will be under severe pressure.

Le Monde is the textbook example of the evolution of French press over the
last years:

* A steady erosion in readership.
* A lack of budget discipline, made worse by loose governance.
* The core newsroom's reluctance to support the digital strategy
* The collective certainty the "brand" was too beautiful to fail and
that a deep-pocketed philanthropist will inevitably show up at the
right time to save the company.
* An difficulty to invest into the future, to test new ideas, to built
prototypes, to coopt key talent or to invest in decisive technologies.
* A bottomless investment in the heavy-industry part of the supply
chain, in costly printing facilities.
* An excessive reliance on public subsidies which account for about
10% of the industry's entire revenue. Compared to Sweden, French
newspapers have 3 times less readers, but each one gets 5 times more
subsidies.

To a large extent, these characteristics are shared by most French
newspapers. This could explain the dire situation of the Gallic press. As
of today, four major properties are on the block, or urgently looking for
saviors:

* Le Monde seeks at least €100m (for a first round).
* Le Parisien, a popular daily, is for sale; although quite good from
an editorial perspective, it is not profitable and its family
ownership wants to refocus on sports-related assets.
* La Tribune, the n°2 business daily, is looking for a majority investor.
* Liberation is also facing a cash stress.

Harper's history of information control.

THE BIG ISSUE

When enough is enough

Press gallery journalists across the nation are calling for an end to Harper's history of information control. Photojournalists, documentary filmmakers and scientists are among those suffering the chill. Even the Taxpayers are ticked.        

A joint op-ed calls on journalists to report refusals and delays as news, and editors to turn down proffered pap. In recent weeks, enterprising journalists have dug up some great examples of info control, reporting on heavily scripted message streams on Afghanistan, including crafted quotes for returning aid workers.

For your viewing pleasure, examples of the now-infamous Message Event Proposals are posted here. Anna Maria Tremonti's 'request count' is still ticking – to date, The Current has bagged six interviews with federal politicians, and 43 refusals. When the Tyee's reporter was barred from an event, he made it a story.

Back in 2007, Sharda Vaidyanath predicted an upside to a worsening relationship, leading to more enterprising reporting.

So far, though, the government response is clear: "Let them eat lakes!"

Call for Stories - Media Reporting on Development

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Date: 9 June 2010 14:16
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AWARDS: MEDIA REPORTING ON DEVELOPMENT
Provocative and Original Stories

[To view this announcement online, please see http://www.comminit.com/en/node/318253/2754 or go directly to http://groups.comminit.com/node/318017 ]

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS - http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?m=43aa03f46cdfe63f5184b31300f6ff68) invites entries for their first awards for reporting on international development, soliciting compelling alternative narratives and critiques and encouraging discussion on development issues and processes. Journalists from around the world are requested to submit their best articles, news pieces, critiques, and editorials that focus on poverty alleviation, democracy and governance, rights, health, and other Millennium Development Goals.

There will be 3 awards: one of UKP 500, and two of UKP 250.

Deadline for submission of articles is July 9th 2010.

In order to participate either by submitting a story or commenting on stories submitted by others, please go to The Communication Initiative's Development Networks Group "Awards: Media Reporting on Development" (http://groups.comminit.com/node/318017).

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Journalists must register and join The Communication Initiative's Development Networks Group "Awards: Media Reporting on Development" (http://groups.comminit.com/node/318017) in order to participate in this awards process.

Submissions will be open for comments/critique by other members of the "Awards: Media Reporting on Development" Group (http://groups.comminit.com/node/318017).

Submissions will be judged and selected for prizes by a group of IDS research fellows, board members, and communication staff.

Criteria:

1. TYPE: The article submitted must have been published in some print or online media form (newspaper, journal, magazine, etc.) in the period from Jan 1 2009 through May 30 2010.
2. CONTENT: The article must have a focus on a recognisable development issue (e.g., poverty, health, rights) or a recognisable development process (e.g., participation, advocacy, policy development, system strengthening).
3. PERSPECTIVE: There should be a prominent focus within the piece on the voices of those most affected and/or those engaged in the development process or issue that is the focus of the piece. The piece will also be judged based on originality of perspective.
4. RELEVANCE: The piece must show the ability to locate the specific development issue or process being reported within overall national or global development dynamics.
5. REPORTAGE: There must be a high standard of journalism demonstrated within the piece.
6. QUALITY: The writing must be of a high standard.

Process:

Beginning June 9th 2010, journalists will be Invited to join the Communication Initiative's Development Networks Group "Awards: Reporting on International Development" (http://groups.comminit.com/node/318017) and to submit the stories that they wish to have assessed.

Between June 9th and July 9th 2010, journalists can Submit their work as Posts to the Group, with brief outlines in the posts themselves and their stories attached as PDFs or links to online versions of the full stories.

During this time, other members of the Group will be able to Comment on these stories - in order to both inform the judges' deliberations and encourage a process of mutual support and guidance.

The Decisions on the award winners will be made by the IDS-convened judges group between July 10th and July 16th 2010.

The winners will be announced on or just after July 19th 2010.

The Top 10 outstanding stories will be featured within The Communication Initiative process after the awards are announced.


For more information, contact:
Deborah Heimann
The Communication Initiative
http://www.comminit.com
dheimann@comminit.com