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The Sora Star: Be an Investigative Journalist
The Sora Star, Sora’s first student newspaper, is hiring a team of investigative journalists!
Introduction
🗞️The Sora Star, Sora’s first student newspaper, is hiring a team of investigative journalists!🕵️
Wanted: student journalists who will…
- think like detectives
- investigate real-life issues that impact our students and faculty
- ask hard-hitting questions
- conduct live interviews
- sniff out facts from fiction
- leave their biases at the door
During this 6-week “job,” you’ll pitch a story to your editor, identify live sources, engage in “off the record” research, prep for and conduct interviews, and write and publish a news story. Do you think you have what it takes?
Essential Questions
- To what extent does the First Amendment protect journalists and news publications?
- How can the relationship between journalism and government be improved?
- How can journalists tell the truth when the truth may be subjective?
- How and why does journalism reflect the health of a democracy?
- What is the relationship between the U.S. branches of government and journalism?
- How do structure, tone, and selection of information reveal an author’s intentions?
- What is the nature of truth?
Learning Objectives
- Write questions that uncover complexity.
- Independently find and examine primary and secondary sources.
- Analyze and evaluate the credibility and usefulness of information.
- Group, order, and contextualize information based on the needs of my reader.
- Write using direct, fluid, and varied sentences.
- Analyze the history, purpose, and impact of journalism in a democratic society.