Monday, February 29, 2016
jayson blair is fake!
Jayson blair not only made up stories but he plagiarized many of his work. He went to school in University of Maryland, studying journalism after being born in Columbia Maryland. He got fired from writing for the New York Daily times and he went into politics after. It was similar to Glass because he got fired and then just went on to another job. He was soon forgotten. I think it is more worth it to work hard for a job rather than to make up lies just to get respect. I think that journalism is more about trust now because facts need to be true.
response to shattered glass
OPTION ONE:Glass constantly twists stories, bends the truth and straight up lies to his colleagues and his editors. He entertains his coworkers about the Tyson fight. Glass does this so the coworkers trust him and respect him so nobody suspects anything. When glass goes to visit the high school he talks about "good" editors. He says that editors should do anything for you to help your story. What he doesn't realize is that if your whole story is a fake lie the editor will get in trouble as well for publishing false facts. Glass lives in a false reality where he thinks that he has done nothing wrong and that he needed to make up this story for respect. He thinks that his editor is not being loyal when really he is just doing his job. When Glass is applying to law school that is another clue of why he is not an ideal journalist. He says that the only reason that he is applying is to make his parents happy. This applies in the office too. He does things just to please his editor and not to actually improve his writing. An ideal journalist should be taking the criticism and applying it to their writing and nit fighting it. Glass even almost resigns when somebody finds out one of his lies. Quitting just to cover your lies is definitely not good journalism. Thats just lazy and dumb. Another mistake Glass makes is that he tells an intern that he is not good enough and to not turn in work if it isn't ideal writing. You should always try to get your stories published because that will only make you a stronger writer unlike glass.
Monday, February 22, 2016
feature on ghazi
Since her high school days, Mary Ghazinezhadiansh had working with the arts on her mind. For the past nineteen years she has been teaching art classes for high school students. For the past five years, since 2011 Ms. Ghazi, as the students call her has been helping with the annual Benefit Fashion Show. Mary started at Mccallum High School in the spring 1997. She taught many art classes for eleven years before given the opportunity to be a sponsor with students in a fashions show. The sponsor before had to leave and Ghazi got the sponsorship. The show was originally to raise money for supplies for the school art classes and sets for theatre. Soon it became a way for students to show off their talents in fashion design and modeling. Every year there is usually a fresh new group of models and designers. Ghazi often finds humor in the new models learning how to walk in tall heels. Ms. Ghazi takes the show seriously and knows that the studenst do as well. "everyone participating in the show end up bonding and becoming a group and that's when the show gets better. Also how hard working the theater tech crew is and how good they are at their job"In Ghazi's opinion last years show was the best show out of the the five she has experienced. Ghazi says that the 2015 fashion show designs were exceptional but 2016 was still a success. This years STRADA show had fashion lines that were inspired by styles of countries all around the world. "The best thing about being involved in the fashion show for me is being able to see the development of students from beginning to design and participate in the show to see their continued development until their senior year. Many of the designers and models end up doing this a career because of the exposure they get from the show", Ghazi says. Sadly, Ms Ghazi is retiring soon. She will be missed not only by her students but by the fashion community as well. She is a very hard working teacher currently and works hard in the show outside of school too. Hopefully the show will not change with out her."I think the saddest part for me is leaving all behind when i retire. And that time will come."
Current Events Warm-Up Activity
Two thirds of the voters said they were leaning towards voting Trump. The Democratic voters seem to want to voter Sanders and the Republican voters are voting Trump. Cruz only is getting the votes of 2/10.Sanders is what the younger voters are going for as well.
Clinton does not seem to be popular to anybody. I think Sanders and Trump will be the two main candidates.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
bryant gumball
I think it could be a "great" piece of journalism meaning that it was very long but I don't think it was anything special.
Honestly Gumbel sounds like an awful, unsocial person and I don't think I would enjoy being around them. Given how he treated people in his life, thats how I understand what he means.
I think Reilly probably interview Gumbel's mom and also other people in Gumbel's life. He also needed to do some background information and also probably watched old news videos.
I think that the article was balanced because it gave all opinions on Gumbel and not just the good and bad things.
This article wasn't abstract, it was just about a family with daddy issues except for the favorite son and how that affected Gumbel's personality.
The article probably didn't show all of his personality because writers are always biased even just a little bit.
The purpose was to show a more in depth understanding of who Gumbel was.
The reader gains more knowledge of Gumbel and his life and what he went through to act that certain way.
Honestly Gumbel sounds like an awful, unsocial person and I don't think I would enjoy being around them. Given how he treated people in his life, thats how I understand what he means.
I think Reilly probably interview Gumbel's mom and also other people in Gumbel's life. He also needed to do some background information and also probably watched old news videos.
I think that the article was balanced because it gave all opinions on Gumbel and not just the good and bad things.
This article wasn't abstract, it was just about a family with daddy issues except for the favorite son and how that affected Gumbel's personality.
The article probably didn't show all of his personality because writers are always biased even just a little bit.
The purpose was to show a more in depth understanding of who Gumbel was.
The reader gains more knowledge of Gumbel and his life and what he went through to act that certain way.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
oooooooooonnnnnnn wwwwwwwwwwrrrrriiiittttttiiiinnnngggg
1.This speech is basically just about writing. There are a lot of different components of writing. This article has a lot of writing. There needs to be more than the who, what, when where and why.
leads:
You don't need it to be extra special. Just make it interesting and entertaining to the reader. It needs to be like magic. You should have the lead go fast and should cover a lot of ground. Like a bullet it should go through everything efficiently. It doesn't need to be super thought out it just needs to hold a long attention span.
middles:
Middles should not be obvious, they should go deeper than the surface of a story. There should be little details from the story that will make the story more interesting. For example with Rodman, the basketball player being offered 10 million dollars, the writer went into more detail about the people who were giving him the money. He talked about their jobs and what they do. For a good middle there should be lots of emotion and detail.
endings:
The ending doesn't need to be a big finish. The ending can be more subtle. The last line should sum up your opinion and the article as a whole. Again there should be emotion for the reader
quotes:
"He went out to the cemetery and interviewed the guy who was digging the grave for President Kennedy. He was the only guy to think of this. His whole column was just about how this guy was digging this dirt up and how he was trying to make the hole really perfect because this was a really special grave. Through the eyes of this lowly grave digger, whose only connection to Kennedy was the fact that he was digging the hole in the ground in which he was going to be placed, he captured the heartbreak of the country way better — way better — than the hundreds of other columnists who wanted to write that big sweeping broad statement. He went and found a person, and through the eyes of that one particular person, told a story for everyone." This story sounds very interesting and Jimmy Breslin is very different.
"But because this woman didn’t notice this little chain, they set him free. So, Mike Royko spent the whole column just telling the story and when he has two paragraphs left to go. The first thing he says is, there’s very little that anybody can do about it now, about this guy getting off. However, it is chain-snatching season. So I suggest that if anyone should ever get an opportunity to see whatever his name was again in the buff, maybe they want to grab that chain and run with it. " This quote is very interesting how subtle this ending is. I like it because it's very low key sad and funny.
"Let’s talk about leads. The way that we’re taught in journalism school to do a lead is to get all the basic information into the first or second paragraph somehow. Well, as you all know, if you’re trying to do that, it’s hard to do with any style. You’ve got to say how old somebody is, where they live, what they did, what they’re charged with, all the rest of it, it’s hard to put a lot of pizzazz on that and make it look like anything." I like how he writes directly to the reader. Not only is his advise good but it's interesting how he delivers it.
"That is a third of the column. To me the “nut graph”, if you apply the old way of looking at this – and remember this was written in the ’70s – the nut graph is basically, “It was another of last week’s murders that went almost unnoticed,” the last paragraph that I read. You didn’t get to that until a third of the way through the column. He goes later in the column into statistics and how many young people are dying and the rest of it. What was important was that he started with a scene of happy go-lucky kids walking down the street, and then I thought the most effective thing he did was: “He said, give me the money.”
“I don’t have any money.” "I like how he explains the nut graph. He also gives his opinion and backs it up with a quote.
"The kid was Justin Mello, barely 16 years old, popular soccer player at Anchor Bay High School, with a melting smile, a tall athletic frame, a freshly minted driver’s license and a dream of buying his father’s GMC truck with the money earned working at a pizza shop." I like how this just gets the job done. He writes a small profile on the person about all the important facts you need to know.
"I remember a far less significant example, something I did one time with basketball player Dennis Rodman, who was holding out for more money. Whatever it was they were offering him at the time, it seemed like a ton of money and it wasn’t enough for him. I went to an auto plant and interviewed a series of people about what they made and what they did and barely mentioned Dennis Rodman, except at the end. I described what they did, and what their jobs were, what their tasks were, how often they worked, and then asked them, what do you think about the fact that Dennis Rodman can’t get by on $10 million a year or whatever it was." I like how he goes into detail about the other people that don't seem as important. He gives the main facts rather than making a big hype on the main character which is good as well.
leads:
You don't need it to be extra special. Just make it interesting and entertaining to the reader. It needs to be like magic. You should have the lead go fast and should cover a lot of ground. Like a bullet it should go through everything efficiently. It doesn't need to be super thought out it just needs to hold a long attention span.
middles:
Middles should not be obvious, they should go deeper than the surface of a story. There should be little details from the story that will make the story more interesting. For example with Rodman, the basketball player being offered 10 million dollars, the writer went into more detail about the people who were giving him the money. He talked about their jobs and what they do. For a good middle there should be lots of emotion and detail.
endings:
The ending doesn't need to be a big finish. The ending can be more subtle. The last line should sum up your opinion and the article as a whole. Again there should be emotion for the reader
quotes:
"He went out to the cemetery and interviewed the guy who was digging the grave for President Kennedy. He was the only guy to think of this. His whole column was just about how this guy was digging this dirt up and how he was trying to make the hole really perfect because this was a really special grave. Through the eyes of this lowly grave digger, whose only connection to Kennedy was the fact that he was digging the hole in the ground in which he was going to be placed, he captured the heartbreak of the country way better — way better — than the hundreds of other columnists who wanted to write that big sweeping broad statement. He went and found a person, and through the eyes of that one particular person, told a story for everyone." This story sounds very interesting and Jimmy Breslin is very different.
"But because this woman didn’t notice this little chain, they set him free. So, Mike Royko spent the whole column just telling the story and when he has two paragraphs left to go. The first thing he says is, there’s very little that anybody can do about it now, about this guy getting off. However, it is chain-snatching season. So I suggest that if anyone should ever get an opportunity to see whatever his name was again in the buff, maybe they want to grab that chain and run with it. " This quote is very interesting how subtle this ending is. I like it because it's very low key sad and funny.
"Let’s talk about leads. The way that we’re taught in journalism school to do a lead is to get all the basic information into the first or second paragraph somehow. Well, as you all know, if you’re trying to do that, it’s hard to do with any style. You’ve got to say how old somebody is, where they live, what they did, what they’re charged with, all the rest of it, it’s hard to put a lot of pizzazz on that and make it look like anything." I like how he writes directly to the reader. Not only is his advise good but it's interesting how he delivers it.
"That is a third of the column. To me the “nut graph”, if you apply the old way of looking at this – and remember this was written in the ’70s – the nut graph is basically, “It was another of last week’s murders that went almost unnoticed,” the last paragraph that I read. You didn’t get to that until a third of the way through the column. He goes later in the column into statistics and how many young people are dying and the rest of it. What was important was that he started with a scene of happy go-lucky kids walking down the street, and then I thought the most effective thing he did was: “He said, give me the money.”
“I don’t have any money.” "I like how he explains the nut graph. He also gives his opinion and backs it up with a quote.
"The kid was Justin Mello, barely 16 years old, popular soccer player at Anchor Bay High School, with a melting smile, a tall athletic frame, a freshly minted driver’s license and a dream of buying his father’s GMC truck with the money earned working at a pizza shop." I like how this just gets the job done. He writes a small profile on the person about all the important facts you need to know.
"I remember a far less significant example, something I did one time with basketball player Dennis Rodman, who was holding out for more money. Whatever it was they were offering him at the time, it seemed like a ton of money and it wasn’t enough for him. I went to an auto plant and interviewed a series of people about what they made and what they did and barely mentioned Dennis Rodman, except at the end. I described what they did, and what their jobs were, what their tasks were, how often they worked, and then asked them, what do you think about the fact that Dennis Rodman can’t get by on $10 million a year or whatever it was." I like how he goes into detail about the other people that don't seem as important. He gives the main facts rather than making a big hype on the main character which is good as well.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
summary of learning how to write a feature profile(both parts)
part one
Features should have conflict for the main character. Without conflict the writing is uninteresting and there is no challenge. There should be a certain news angle on how and why the story is being written. There should be a setting in the story of when and where the character is to set a tone. Setting isn't all that significant but the reader needs to know when it happened. There should be a main character that is developed so the reader can have human interest. There should be a certain perspective. There should be a strong voice in the writing showing that the narrator knows what they are talking about. The story should have lots of information and a strong plot.
part two
This feature talks about scenery to describe the person. First you need to get some background information to at least know who you are dealing with. Then the writer described the person and their actions, I think this makes the feature more detailed.In "Where's Jake Scott" there is conflict. Conflict definitely makes the article more interesting. Conflict draws in the reader and adds human interest. In this feature the writer puts himself into the article a lot which I don't think is the best idea when you are talking about somebody else's story. The feature should be a story with at least a beginning and a middle but there doesn't necesarily need to be an end because that can also add more interest as well. There should be an in depth understanding of what the main character does.
Features should have conflict for the main character. Without conflict the writing is uninteresting and there is no challenge. There should be a certain news angle on how and why the story is being written. There should be a setting in the story of when and where the character is to set a tone. Setting isn't all that significant but the reader needs to know when it happened. There should be a main character that is developed so the reader can have human interest. There should be a certain perspective. There should be a strong voice in the writing showing that the narrator knows what they are talking about. The story should have lots of information and a strong plot.
part two
This feature talks about scenery to describe the person. First you need to get some background information to at least know who you are dealing with. Then the writer described the person and their actions, I think this makes the feature more detailed.In "Where's Jake Scott" there is conflict. Conflict definitely makes the article more interesting. Conflict draws in the reader and adds human interest. In this feature the writer puts himself into the article a lot which I don't think is the best idea when you are talking about somebody else's story. The feature should be a story with at least a beginning and a middle but there doesn't necesarily need to be an end because that can also add more interest as well. There should be an in depth understanding of what the main character does.
Monday, February 8, 2016
lead scavenger hunt
1. John Sack is an integral part of Esquire lore.
description (person)
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/
2. Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller found themselves in the odd position of moving from competitors to collaborators, over the course of a phone call or two and a few emails.
contrast or description (event)
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/
3. Was artist Larry Rivers a sexual swashbuckler, breaking taboos and changing the way we think of the human body, or did some of his work have truly disturbing elements?
question lead
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/page/6/
4. How do you take people — ones whom your readers would cross the street to avoid — and make them compelling enough to follow through a four-part series?
question lead
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/page/7/
5. One side of 24 year-old Ana Rodarte’s face balloons and sags with disfiguring neurofibromatosis.
description (person)
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/page/10/
description (person)
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/
2. Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller found themselves in the odd position of moving from competitors to collaborators, over the course of a phone call or two and a few emails.
contrast or description (event)
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/
3. Was artist Larry Rivers a sexual swashbuckler, breaking taboos and changing the way we think of the human body, or did some of his work have truly disturbing elements?
question lead
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/page/6/
4. How do you take people — ones whom your readers would cross the street to avoid — and make them compelling enough to follow through a four-part series?
question lead
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/page/7/
5. One side of 24 year-old Ana Rodarte’s face balloons and sags with disfiguring neurofibromatosis.
description (person)
http://niemanstoryboard.org/storyboard-category/notable-narratives/page/10/
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
the most important things about features
1 allows the reader to see the story through vivid detail
2 lead should not be cliche
3 should be in third person
4 lead can start with a direct quote
5 direct quote should be used sparingly
6 twist should should set reader up for one mood and then changes it
7 you can use short choppy sentences
8 use dialogue
9 lead should be specific then general
10 use a nut graph with who, what, when, where, why and how
Feature Exploration Day
I liked the Dies the Victim, Dies the City. It had much more action which I like in a story. Overall I didn't really think much of the feature but they were okay. They do illustrate good feature writing because they pull in the reader in a captivating story. He writes the stories like you would write a book except with more solid opinion to the reader. There is always a new fact that he adds in which is what I should do.
Monday, February 1, 2016
rest in peace franny :(( (obituary)
Clara Frances Brown,was tragically caught in a house fire yesterday in her beautiful home in San Francisco. Born in Austin, Texas in 2001 she lived to be 112, living a very long and happy life. She left her husband and dog, and was very close with her siblings and friends. Everybody close to her said she was always smiling and baked very good cookies.Franny was a gynecologist and enjoyed her highly respected job. Family, friends and coworkers said that she just wanted women's lives to be easier. Every patient she had she treated very well and was very friendly and loving doctor. She enjoyed baking and long walks and will be missed by everybody in her life.
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