Students explore the jobs, workflow, and decision-making processes in newsrooms. After guided research, students take on the roles of reporters, editors, producers, and news executives. While they learn to play their roles in developing comprehensive, detailed stories, students come to recognize the essential characteristics of a functioning newsroom. Examining the criteria that news outlets use to evaluate a story’s priority or when and how a story will be distributed helps students view headlines and stories in print, radio, TV, and online with a critical eye.

Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2020. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 30, 2020.

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