March 17, 2014 by Law and Ethics Introduction to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Understanding the often erroneous application of FERPA, also known as the Buckley Amendment, to scholastic journalism Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Literacy Evaluating website credibility A lesson on questions to ask for evaluating online news sites Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Literacy Identifying bias in information A lesson on identifying bias in information and writing objectively Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Literacy The expert curator A lesson on how today’s news consumer also acts as a content curator Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Literacy Understanding News Literacy A primer to introducing news literacy concepts in your classroom Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing Alternative formats and polls to enhance the news A lesson introducing students to alternative ways of presenting news using a variety of text features Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing Writing sports news A lesson for advanced journalism students on the particulars of covering sports Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing Establishing a beat system A lesson focused on understanding beats and their role in news gathering Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing Revising and editing news stories A lesson to introduce rewriting and self-editing as a key to effective news writing Read more