Journalism Principles and Practices
✨✨✨WEEK 1✨✨✨
Class Introductions
System of Computing Grades
| Midterm Grade | 10% Class Participation |
| 50% Output and Activities | |
| 40% Midterm Examination | |
| Tentative Grade | 10% Class Participation |
| 50% Output and Activities | |
| 40% Final Exam/Project | |
| Final Grade | 33% Midterm Grade |
| 67% Tentative Grade |
Course Requirements
🖊️ Active participation in class.
🖊️ Passing grade in examinations (short quizzes, midterm, and final exams).
🖊️ Submission of assignments and papers.
Some reminders:
🖊️ I give a grade of 5 for anyone I catch committing academic dishonesty including cheating in exams, plagiarizing, and recycling a work you submitted in previous or other classes.
🖊️ I give surprise quizzes.
✨✨✨Week 2✨✨✨
🖊️ Introduction to Journalism
🖊️🖊️ Journalism Defined
🖊️🖊️ Journalism Core Values
🖊️🖊️ Essential Principles and Practices
🖊️🖊️ Responsibilities of a Journalist
🖊️🖊️ The Role of the Press in Society
✨✨✨Week 3✨✨✨
Historical Origins and Evolution of the Press (Global and National Context)
Extra Reading: El Renacimiento’s “Birds of Prey”
✨✨✨Week 4✨✨✨
Dealing with Propaganda: Misinformation, Disinformation, Fake News
✨✨✨Week 5✨✨✨
Historical Originas and Evolution of the Press (Global and National Context) Part II
> Japanese Era
> Post-Liberation Era
> Martial Law Era
Further viewing and reading:
1. BBC: Philippine martial law: The fight to remember a decade of arrests and torture
2. Journalism for Filipinos: Martial Law Days [Must use BU email to open]
3. Twitter videos posted by Howard Johnson of BBC
4. ANC: Veteran journalists recall state of media while PH was under martial law
5. If you can look for available links to the documentary “Portraits of Mosquito Press”
✨✨✨March 6-10, 2023✨✨✨
The Interview – Journalism for Filipinos Chapter 13 [Must use BU email to open]
Interviewing Principles and Practices
> News Interview
> Principles of Interviewing
> Types of Questions
> Interview Ground Rules
> The Profile
> Using and Abusing Quotes
> Anonymous and Confidential
[VIDEO] UPFRONT – Mehdi Hasan interview with Ernesto Abella
Mehdi Hasan: ‘Most people ask the question and move on. I don’t’
[VIDEO] DATELINE PHILIPPINES – Karmina Constatino interview with Jose Montemayor
Karmina Constantino in focus: “When there’s an opportunity to make things right, you take it.”
✨✨✨Further Reading✨✨✨
Journalism for Filipinos (Alito Malinao) – Pages 20 to 24 [Must use BU email to open]
The Elements of Journalism – Chapters 1 to 3 [Must use BU email to open]
> Chapter 1: What Is Journalism For?
> Chapter 2: Truth: The First and Most Confusing Principle
> Chapter 3: Who Journalists Work For
Mehdi Hasan: ‘Most people ask the question and move on. I don’t’
Karmina Constantino in focus: “When there’s an opportunity to make things right, you take it.”
✨✨✨March 13-17, 2023✨✨✨
UPLOAD ASSIGNMENT HERE
Instruction for assignment:
1. Summarize the story
2. Who were the interviewees?
3. What where their contributions to the interview? What were they quoted about?
TOPIC FOR THIS WEEK: NEWSWRITING
✨✨✨March 27 (1B) and 31 (1A), 2023✨✨✨
Readings and assignment sent via email. Expect the email one day before the class schedule.
✨✨✨DATES TO REMEMBER✨✨✨
March 8, 2023 – Submission of Midterm Project – Interview women in journalism. Include the video or audio file of the interview and provide a summary of the interview. [To be submitted via Google Forms.]
March 20, 2023 – Midterm Exams (Journ 1B)
March 24, 2023 – Midterm Exams (Journ 1A)
✨✨✨IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER✨✨✨
ON OR BEFORE MAY 16, 2023 – SUBMIT W/ NO DEDUCTIONS
MAY 17-23, 2023 – SUBMIT W/ DEDUCTIONS PER DAY
BEYOND MAY 23, 2023 – WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
✨✨✨ANNOUNCEMENT (VERSION 1 – May 15, 2023)✨✨✨
Dear all,
Please use this guide for your final project. I am getting a lot of questions via email. I may not be able to respond to all of them because I am computing grades at the moment while also doing preparations in my classes in MA.
FORMAT OF THE HARDBOUND:
- Please arrange the submissions according to group. Each group will have a title page with a fictitious name for a newspaper. You will need this name for your news and features (e.g., let’s say your newspaper’s name is Ang Pagharang, then when quoting someone, you say, “…blah blah told Ang Pagharang.”)
- The arrangement will be:
- NEWS
- FEATURES
- OPINION/EDITORIAL
- Speaking of opinion/editorial, you are free to choose between the two. An editorial is a newspaper’s stance on issues, while an opinion is the writer’s opinion on issues. Therefore,
- If you are going to write an editorial, it should not be signed or it should not have a byline. You will also use “we” or “this paper” or “Ang Pagharang” in sentences like, “This paper believes that it is the right time for the Philippines to legalize blah blah blah.”
- If you are going to write an opinion, it should have a title and it should have the writer’s name. Unlike your news, features, and editorial, I discourage groups from writing opinion (or column) articles as collab. This should be done by one writer only.
- As I mentioned in my email, there should be photos for features. These photos should have captions and the name of the person who took the photos. DO NOT USE PHOTOS THAT YOU DO NOT OWN.
- Photos for the hard news are optional.
- You may put the photo on the same page as the article or you may put them in a separate sheet. It doesn’t matter how.
- Please do not use fancy fonts for your news, features, and editorial.
- Do not include page numbers.
SUBMISSION:
- Like I said, the governor will collect the submissions from all groups. As of now, the deadline is still May 16. The governor will take note of all the groups that submit on time.
- The governor will also note those submitted after May 16.
- The deadliest deadline is May 23. Before 5 p.m. that day, all papers should be up for hardbound.
DEADLINE:
- May 16 – without deductions
- May 17 to 23 – with deductions per day
- Beyond May 23, 5 p.m. – will not be accepted
- I expect that these dates will change. The submission of grades for the graduating class was moved, so maybe the university will also move the deadline.
This is VERSION 1 of this announcement. I will be contacting class governors if there are changes to this announcement.