How do the LAF pen drivers stack up?

2. How do the LAF pen drivers stack up?

4. What is news? LAFers say • affects people • interesting to public, affects people, useful to public • interesting that people would spend money • affects people, up to the minute • out of the ordinary, relevant • happenings of national and local issues • relevant and that public is interested in • info on current events or issues that are relevant useful and interesting • anything that’s relevant to me!

5. What is news?

6. What is news? • No one agreed upon definition

7. What is news? • No one agreed upon definition • “I know it when I see it” Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964

12. What is news? • No one agreed upon definition • “I know it when I see it” Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964 • In every newsroom and website, people are constantly deciding what is news: “the ability to determine which stories are most interesting and important to readers.”

14. “This year’s Republican primary season offers us an important opportunity to confront our scruples about the privacy of faith in public life — and to get over them. We have an unusually large number of candidates, including putative front-runners, who belong to churches that are mysterious or suspect to many Americans. Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are Mormons, a faith that many conservative Christians have been taught is a “cult” and that many others think is just weird. (Huntsman says he is not “overly religious.”) Rick Perry​, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are all affiliated with fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity, which has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction.”

16. Rev. Wright’s greatest hits • “... where White folks' greed runs a world in need” • “... America's chickens are coming home to roost” • “... The government lied about Pearl Harbor too. They knew the Japanese were going to attack” • Presented lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan

17. What is news: Inside Reporting

18. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper

19. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper • IR lays out seven items to consider: impact

20. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper • IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy,

21. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper • IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity,

22. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper • IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence,

23. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper • IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence, novelty,

24. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper • IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence, novelty, conflict

25. What is news: Inside Reporting • It all depends on the outlet: contrast between daily newspaper, student newspaper and community newspaper • IR lays out seven items to consider: impact, immediacy, proximity, prominence, novelty, conflict and emotions

26. “If you don’t have the goods, nobody’s going to look. That’s never going to change.”

27. Journalism pros: part III

29. What is news: Telling the Story

30. What is news: Telling the Story • Relevance

31. What is news: Telling the Story • Relevance • Usefulness

32. What is news: Telling the Story • Relevance • Usefulness • Interest

33. More specifically…

34. More specifically… • Impact

35. More specifically… • Impact • Conflict

36. More specifically… • Impact • Conflict • Novelty

37. More specifically… • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence

38. More specifically… • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence • Proximity

39. More specifically… • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence • Proximity • Timeliness

40. TTS v IR • Impact Impact • Conflict Conflict • Novelty Novelty • Prominence Prominence • Proximity Proximity • Timeliness Immediacy Emotions

42. Two points to consider • News is not all ‘life and death’

44. Two points to consider • News is not all ‘life and death’ • News is more than a collection of facts

45. “The University of Florida defeated Florida Atlantic University on Saturday by a score of 44-3 in a football game played in Gainesville.”

47. Let ‘er rip!!!!!!!!!!!!! “The Florida Gators boldly announced the arrival of the Muschamp era Saturday night in a brutal demolition of overwhelmed Florida Atlantic University.”

49. “The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.” Harold Macmillan

50. So too journalism • Project for Excellence in Journalism