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©2006  Frank Baker, media educator

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Resources for incorporating
news/journalism into instruction
 


Downloadable Stories/Essays About The News:

Read about the new "news literacy" initiatives

Beyond Cynicism: How Media Literacy Can Make Students
More Engaged Citizens (study)

PEJ Study: 'Daily Show' Offering Valuable News

Can an MTV series help make newspapers cool again?

Teenagers say reading online news is a stressful experience

Sensationalism sweeping local news is bad for ratings

State of the News Media 2007


Carnegie-Knight Task Force Releases Report on Mandatory Testing and News in the Schools (PR;
Full report)


Evolving Definitions of News

Images of disasters raise anxiety levels

The Newspaper industry: More media, less news

When is news, not news?

Growth of online news audience slows

Newsmagazines in U.S. tend to ignore Latinos

More minorities in local news

Study: Newspaper Sports Staffs Overwhelmingly White and Male

As the Internet Grows Up, the News Industry Is Forever Changed

Major investigation of TV Station's use of Video News Releases in Newcasts

Newspapers promote themselves (See some of their ads)

In risky moves, newscasts include product plugs



Who makes the news? Apparently not many women: world wide study

Celebrity news grabs more headlines

Papers not a must read? Where are young people going to get their news?

Bush's teleconf with soliders, staged

Hurricanes and the media


Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal

Newspapers in crisis

Dan Rather blasts new journalism order

Who do journalists work for?

No lie: fake news eroding public confidence in media

Abandoning the news

News for a new generation: can it be fun and functional? (Mar 2005)

State of News Media 2005

Changing Face of Network News

Editorial Cartoons about the news

Bloggers busy rewriting the rules of journalism

Viewers often don't know the source of footage; Under Bush a new age of prepackaged TV news

controversy over VNRs: prepackaged TV News

How Media Covered the Tsunami Disaster

Top Most Censored News Stories 

How to read a newspaper, Walter Cronkite

What's News? (Ed Leadership)