Each team should have already started their own on-line newspaper, giving the name of the paper, the logo, and the masthead. Your mid-term grades will be determined by what I see on your site. Your grades will depend on how well you learned the following lessons:
1. What is News?
2. Newspaper 0ffices
3. How News Reporting Really Works
4. Reliability of News Reports
5. Newspaper Structure
6. Headlines
7. Inverted Pyramid Style
Your newspaper should look as much like a real newspaper as possible. Your news should come either from actual events or from work generated by other classes. For example, the Advertising and Marketing classes are good sources for business news, product news, other business and product related news, and advertisements. The Travel and Tourism English classes are good sources for travel news, business news, and advertisements.
Remember than the Internet is also a good source for news. The kind of news you report will depend on what kind of newspaper you're producing. For example, a community newspaper may also have world news, but their focus is on the community. A business newspaper will have other news, and so on.
Don't be afraid to use your imagination and come up with a kind of newspaper you've never seen before. For example, have you noticed that most newspapers are created with men in mind? If your target readers were women, would you really have four sports pages for a twenty-page newspaper?
The Advertising and Marketing classes and the Travel and Tourism classes are playing the same game that your class is playing. It's a game with a purpose. The more you can play it with one another, the more you'll learn in your subject area.
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