There are nine elements of journalism, according to veteran journalists Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel:
Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.
Its first loyalty is to citizens
Its essence is a discipline of verification.
Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover.
It must serve as an independent monitor of power.
It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise.
It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant.
It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional.
Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience.
Find out more about "The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect" and read the book’s introduction here: http://www.journalism.org/node/71
Question:
As student journalists, do we (you) do this? Why/why not?
14 comments:
While i believe that is important to follow the 9 elements in professional journalism, it should not be as rigid a following for student journalists. That's not saying that we should not follow them we should just allow a little leniency based on the fact that our opinion is our most important source of fact as a teenager. This stops us from being independent in our writing even if we want to be.
I think as student journalist we should abide by these 9 elements to give our peers quality news to learn from and enjoy. It is our job to inform the school population of current events and happenings in the school in an unbiased and honest manner. However, I believe that we are limited in what we publish due to the administration's constraints on what is acceptable to write.
I think that as student journalists we should follow the 9 elements of journalism. If we don't, are we saying we aren't real journalists and shouldn't be taken seriously? As student journalists, we need to work hard to appeal to our audience and make the news we report intersesting. We need to only report the truth and our first loyalty is our audience in order to gain readers. After all, we aren't writing for ourselves we are writing for others.
Student journalists, just like any other journalist, should take the nine elements of journalism seriously. Though we are not paid to write, it is just as important for us to provide accurate and pertinent news for our audience. As seen throughout history, news plays a key role in the lives and thoughts of the people. Our audience may only be our high school, but that same reasoning is applicable to the news the student body receives through our newspaper.
I believe student journalists should follow the nine elements of journalism. It is important as journalists to be loyal to our peers and give them accurate information. Also, as student journalists we should be unbiased about our topics and events.
I believe as a student journalist we should follow these nine elements of journalism. Teenage journalist should be true to their audience. They should write articles that people will want to read and have strong facts that support what the journalist write.
I think student journalists are role models in their schools and it is their duty to deliver the truth in their writings. By following the nine elements of journalism, we are able to give accurate and quality news to our peers. We are trusted by our advisors and administrators to be truthful and respectful in our work.
I believe that it's important for student journalists to follow these nine elements of journalism. I think these elements allow students to create a professional and honest paper.
Even though we are student jouranlists, I believe it is necessary to follow these 9 riles of journalism. We need to write articles that will interest our readers. These articles need to be truthful. I think usually we do a good job of this when selecting what to write about in each paper. The idea of taking surveys of students to see what they want to read about is a very good one that I think we should take into consideration.
As a student journalist I personally view the 9 elements of journalism as both a guideline and an hindering aspect to writing an article. Although it provides a stable and modest way of researching, preparing and writing an article, it also causes in particulars of how to process an article. This may be good to some point until it interfers with the making of an article that could be amazing, but do to the 9 elements is wrong. As a student journalist though, I respect these elements and follow them while writing an article.
I believe that the 9 elements of journalism are very important to follow as a student journalist. We should write about things that are interesting to our peers, as well as keep what we write about accurate. Following theses steps lead toward a honest, interesting and respectful paper.
We try our best to do most of these aspects of journalism, however, as students its difficult to abide by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel's elements of journalism. Mostly because, we cannot bring out critism about certain aspects of our school. We are cencored by the administration and if they see something they don't like, we HAVE to take it out.
I found this entry to be very helpful in my article writing. I will use this information in the future. Thank you Mrs. G-Row!
WE should definitely follow these as we could be held accountable. this was very helpful.
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