Join Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication for a lecture on exciting themes such as story scouting and news writing.
Teachers can choose from one of two exciting lecture themes:
Generating Story Ideas: Students will learn the importance and challenges of generating ideas for news coverage. The lecture will include a brief ‘story scouting’ assignment where students will be directed to a variety of well-known news sources and asked to identify a story idea for a local or national audience.
Newswriting 101: Students will be introduced to the essential components of a news story using the classic Five Ws (Who, What, Where, When and Why). Using this technique, students will produce a short ‘lede’ (the introductory sentence or two of a news story) that captures and conveys the key facts about a realistic (but imaginary) news happening.
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Sample schedule
10:00 to 10:15 a.m. (ET) – Welcome and introductions
10:15 to 11:30 a.m. (ET) – Journalism workshop (select one of the two themes)
11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (ET) – Visit to the Journalism editing labs
12:00 to 12:45 p.m. (ET) – Lunch in the Teraanga Commons Dining Hall
