Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF MAR. 09, 2009 Daily papers cope with challenges to avoid being an endangered speciesWhat would you miss most if your local paper didn't publish in print or online?
What do TV, radio and Internet-only news sites not provide that newspapers do? List as many items as you can.
Share what older family members have said about a daily paper's place in the household when they were students, or ask later today for discussion tomorrow.
Every major U.S. city still has a daily newspaper . . . for now. But no one in journalism dares predict confidently how long that will remain true. Steep drops in advertising and subscription revenue have hit the industry hard as Internet competition and the sick economy shake up the business landscape.
Gannett, which publishes USA Today and more than 80 other daily papers, saw its Wall Street stock price plummet to a record low of about $2 a share last week. And on Monday this week, the company that owns The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee in California and other papers said it will eliminate 1,600 jobs.
The crisis mood in newsrooms nationwide is reinforced by the abrupt cancellation of next month's American Society of Newspaper Editors convention for the first time since 1945, near the end of World War II. The annual conventions began in 1923 and went on through the Depression. "A good number of top editors just could not come," explains the group's director. "They did not want to leave their newsrooms at this time." Legendary journalist says: "We are going through a convulsion. Probably we in the newspaper business have not responded fast enough or smart enough, but the need for information is greater. Not just the quick and dirty take of the Internet or bloggers, but people really digging into things and doing the long form." - Bob Woodward, Washington Post associate editor and former investigative reporter Columnist says: "Political corruption such as Watergate and failed care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center might never have been revealed, if not for newspapers. People don't grasp all that just yet. But they will. And by then, we may be gone." - Nicole Brodeur, The Seattle Times Analyst says: "This is what it looks like to go from bad to worse. We are in for more [newspaper] bankruptcies and more closures before long." - Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo Front Page Talking Points is written by
Felix Grabowski and Alan Stamm for NIEonline.com, Copyright 2024
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