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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 species![]() ![]() What 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."
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo Front Page Talking Points is written by
Felix Grabowski and Alan Stamm for NIEonline.com, Copyright 2024
Front Page Talking Points Archive►President Biden, 81, resists calls to let a younger Democrat run against Donald Trump ►Turning point: Supreme Court says presidents have 'absolute immunity' for official acts ►First Biden-Trump debate of 2024 airs Thursday from Georgia ►Health experts monitor the jump of bird flu to cows and a few farm hands, but see no wide risk ►Negro Leagues stars from a bygone era gain new standing in Major League Baseball records ►Justice Samuel Alito adds two flags to Supreme Court ethics storms ►Use of new weight-loss drugs soars among teens ►Needy families await action on bill to restore federal internet service rebates ►U.S. government may challenge concert business dominance of Live Nation and Ticketmaster |
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