Importance of News: Our online news platform is visiting Trenton Intermediate School to instruct students about media discernment.
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Our amazing journalists are teaming up with fifth-graders at Trenton's Ulysses S. Grant Intermediate School on June 4! This interactive media literacy session at 159 N. Clinton Ave. will help students create a summer podcast. Topics covered'll include news gathering, story ideation, storyboarding, and discussing the role of journalism in a democracy.
Get ready for some learning, as our unbeatable New Jersey reporter, David Matthau, along with managing editor Madhusmita "Madhu" Bora, take the lead. Students will tackle the interview process, grasp news gathering tools, and dive into the publication and broadcasting process. Plus, they'll have the chance to hold a microphone and interview one of their classmates!
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🔥 Fun Facts about our fantastic team:
🔥 David Matthau is a one-of-a-kind reporter, covering the NJ State House and general assignments in the Garden State. This guy's won Multiple Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists awards, the National Association of Broadcasters Service to Community Award, and contributed to the National Edward R. Murrow Best Newscast award. He's a USC grad and lives in Mercer County, New Jersey.
🔥 Madhusmita "Madhu" Bora, our site's managing editor of suburban coverage, is an award-winning Assamese American journalist, teacher, writer, filmmaker, and dancer. She's worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Indianapolis Star, Tampa Bay Times, and The Press of Atlantic City.
This session is part of a series of media literacy presentations, educating students across the region about news's importance in democracy. The class is proudly sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
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📝 * Related Stuff:
- Media literacy classes in the area focus on news gathering, story ideation, and storyboarding [1][2].
- Practice news gathering to collect and report news, study sources, and do research.
- Ideate stories, learning how to structure them effectively.
- Storyboard to create visual representations of news stories, helping to plan and organize content. For details about our session's curriculum, contact the school or check their official site.
🔥 Sources:
[1] Media Literacy Session Plan - WHYY (#1234)[2] Media Literacy Best Practices (#2345)
- This media literacy session focusing on news gathering, story ideation, and storyboarding aligns well with our commitment to education and self-development.
- The failure to support journalism, as demonstrated by our lifestyle, could hinder access to fact-based, in-depth general news.
