Journalism Project-
Project Reflection-
For the Journalism project we constructed a digital news website, where we published all of our articles that varied from Art and Culture to Sports to Entertainment and to News. We started out by reading a lot of news articles and looking into different websites that provided news, and writing about them in our starter documents. Writing down in our starter documents, we wrote what the article was about, how we felt during/after reading it, and the evidence that was relevant to us. We watched the movie “All the President's Men” which was about reporter rivals working for the Washington Post. Our final product displayed was an 400-1200 word article on a topic that we researched on and later published it on a News website also made by students.
What I will take away from this project is all the work and things that reporters and writers have to be aware of. Such as trying to have a balance between biases within their writing. While writing you don’t want to have more of an opinion on one thing, and totally not care for the other. Readers and audiences want to hear both sides of the story, so they can form an opinion themselves, instead of having it formed for them. As I see it, it’s a positive thing to understand that while you are writing you shouldn’t have a bias, because it allows the readers to form an opinion or understanding on their own, and it makes it a whole lot easier when they have all sides of the story. This project has shaped how I think about journalism in different ways. One being, I didn’t really realize how much they had to be aware of countless miniscule things,such as having a bias, or making sure that the readers will be able to relate or to connect to it, even if it has nothing to do with them or what they want to do.
My journalistic skills developed during this project by learning how to connect real life interviews into my article in a way that makes it flow easily and better. I learned that you want to space out the different types of information you have whether if it’s interviews or things you used from the internet, you want to space it out so the readers don’t get too bored with all the information in one place. I was challenged most in two ways. One being, I had the idea in my head that I would go out and interview the students around the school that sell or used to sell things, but I never got to it so I just emailed them questions in hope that they would email me back in time. That didn’t happen. I had one person out of the four that I emailed, email me back. So, I had to improvise. I used his questions I asked him, but I also decided I should use tips and tricks from the internet to get more of a broad perspective, especially since I didn’t have any other interviews I could use. If I were to do this again, next time I would use my time to an advantage and go out and interview the people face to face, instead of relying solely on them to email me back. Two being, I didn’t know if this would actually work out. What I mean by that, is I wasn’t particularly sure if my idea for this project would connect to people looking to start entrepreneuring. I wasn’t sure if students around school are even interested in that sort of thing, so I just went on a limb and went with it. I am particularly proud of my honesty in the project. I feel as though I didn’t make things up based on what people want to hear, but more of what I feel about it as an individual.
What I will take away from this project is all the work and things that reporters and writers have to be aware of. Such as trying to have a balance between biases within their writing. While writing you don’t want to have more of an opinion on one thing, and totally not care for the other. Readers and audiences want to hear both sides of the story, so they can form an opinion themselves, instead of having it formed for them. As I see it, it’s a positive thing to understand that while you are writing you shouldn’t have a bias, because it allows the readers to form an opinion or understanding on their own, and it makes it a whole lot easier when they have all sides of the story. This project has shaped how I think about journalism in different ways. One being, I didn’t really realize how much they had to be aware of countless miniscule things,such as having a bias, or making sure that the readers will be able to relate or to connect to it, even if it has nothing to do with them or what they want to do.
My journalistic skills developed during this project by learning how to connect real life interviews into my article in a way that makes it flow easily and better. I learned that you want to space out the different types of information you have whether if it’s interviews or things you used from the internet, you want to space it out so the readers don’t get too bored with all the information in one place. I was challenged most in two ways. One being, I had the idea in my head that I would go out and interview the students around the school that sell or used to sell things, but I never got to it so I just emailed them questions in hope that they would email me back in time. That didn’t happen. I had one person out of the four that I emailed, email me back. So, I had to improvise. I used his questions I asked him, but I also decided I should use tips and tricks from the internet to get more of a broad perspective, especially since I didn’t have any other interviews I could use. If I were to do this again, next time I would use my time to an advantage and go out and interview the people face to face, instead of relying solely on them to email me back. Two being, I didn’t know if this would actually work out. What I mean by that, is I wasn’t particularly sure if my idea for this project would connect to people looking to start entrepreneuring. I wasn’t sure if students around school are even interested in that sort of thing, so I just went on a limb and went with it. I am particularly proud of my honesty in the project. I feel as though I didn’t make things up based on what people want to hear, but more of what I feel about it as an individual.