Students investigate how and why news stories evolve over time. The BBC My World video segment, “Why Does the News Keep Changing?,” introduces the concept of developing news stories. Students explore what can cause the news to change, including multiple themes, new actions or events, emerging subtleties, widening impacts, and a changing list of affected people. Students distinguish changing information from corrected information and learn that consumers of developing stories—and in fact most news stories—are best served by referring to a variety of dependable news sources. A BBC Production.

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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