Newsworthiness and bias

Read p. 70-71 in the hand-out on journalism, focusing on the three aspects of newsworthiness.

Bring at least one article from an English language newspaper, news website or network to class on Friday (24 Aug, 3rd hour) and make sure you can point out what makes the topic newsworthy.

Oh, and here's the brainstorm on bias from the 7th hour today. (Upside down for now; blame the iPad; I'll fix it later.)