Rachel Steinberg

Mr. Schurtz
English 12 AP Period 6/7
4 March 2010

Modern Day Print

Journalism
 Mod
ern
Day
Pri
nt
Jou
he Basics rna
lis
he History m
he Changes
d the Present
(newspaper3)
 Newspaper :
nou
n
port the news, provide commentary, o
The front page
is the focal
point
ow, the invention of the printing press certainly has contributed positively to jo

pean countries, and finally America…these newspapers sure are useful!

(Robert S. Abbott…)
 48 :
2,500,000

12 : 1,000,000
(Burke)
The 1800’s
The Golden Age
of Journalism

(Lincoln 1909 VDB…) (Kauffman)

The level of
competition

e d (timeliner pics 003)

en
as h t
h eig
(Vargas)

a newspaper faces
(Radio stare 1)
 An Everyday Battle
for Team Newspaper
R.T
.I . N

Key
N=Newspaper (Sword_fight_1)
Moderately More

The Status Quo

Digitals
Major Shift
Turn Back
the Clock
Leaders
Break from Research
Slides, Onto Application
Slides
My
Application :
Interning
with a local
newspaper
 From
the
editor’s
meeting

to a
full
newspaper
Online
Content :
The
“Extende
d
Edition ”
Crime has benefits i
 Easy to
Understand

Balanced Viewpoints
 Three Class Activities

inning of class, I am going to pass out a questionnaire (5-10 questions) that

the survey that Williams performed and we as a class will tabulate the results
re we stand on the scale that she presented (I will modify it so that it reflects
students instead of professional journalists in newsrooms.
llage of headlines from a series of newspapers I provide (students cut out the
that reflect most of what current newspapers try to sell by (locality, human drama
ws).
to class with various articles and groups of two have to think of the best headl
icle as possible.
 Works Cited
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 Works Cited Photos
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• Radio stare 1. 9 Sept. 2007. morgueFile. N.p., 27 Dec. 2009. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.<http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/641899>.
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