The Newsroom

1. Discussion
2. In your discussion this week you have to write a short newscast. Select three (and only three) current news stories. Select the three stories that you think are the most important to our nation and society.
3. Write an original headline for each story.
4. Write no more than three sentences summarizing each story.
5. Include the full html web address for each story.
6. *It is very important to only write on three stories and keep your summaries under three sentences as this simulates how challenging it is to explain very complicated new stories in very restricted time and keeping the attention of viewers.
7. Your initial post will look something like this:
8. Catchy Headline #1
9. Summary sentence 1. This is the second sentence. And finally a third sentence.
10. http://www.not_a_real_website.com/page/super_cool_newstory.html
11. Catchy Headline #2
12. Summary sentence 1. This is the second sentence. And finally a third sentence.
13. http://www.not_a_real_website.com/page/super_cool_newstory.html
14. Catchy Headline #3
15. Summary sentence 1. This is the second sentence. And finally a third sentence.
16. http://www.not_a_real_website.com/page/super_cool_newstory.html
17. For your follow up posts, question your peer's newscasts. Why did they select the stories they did? Were there other current events that they seemed to miss? Was there any bias in how the stories were presented? Was there any bias in how those stories were summarized? Why did they include certain news stories? Why did they ignore others? You may also respond to your peer's questions for a follow post.