What is News? Interactive Lesson
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News judgment
Explore how journalists filter information, or determine which events and issues to cover in a given news cycle, by using key criteria.
Learning objectives
- I can explain what newsworthiness is and name the four major factors that determine it.
- I can develop my own sense of news judgment by evaluating the newsworthiness of a series of examples.
Essential questions
- What does it mean for an issue or an event to be “newsworthy”?
- What makes an issue or event “news”? Who decides?
- What factors should be used to determine which issues and events get covered by journalists?
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