K-12 TLC Guide to Journalism

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Journalists
Freedom of the Press, Journalist at War, Muckrakers
Proofreading and Editing, Writing
Photo Journalism, Political Cartoons
School Newspapers and Blogs

Journalism

Media: K-12 TLC Guide.

1735: John Peter Zenger Trial: K-12 TLC Guide.
09/18/1851: New York Times First Edition Published, Writer's Almanac.
1931: NEAR V. MINNESOTA: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Pentagon Papers: K-12 TLC Guide.
1971: NEW YORK TIMES CO. V. UNITED STATES.

Ananova: First Electronic Broadcaster: K-12 TLC Guide.
Associated Press Managing Editors.
BBC:

05/11/1971: Daily Sketch, Britain's Oldest Tabloid, Published for Last Time.

Black Press of America.
BLS Career Information, Bureau of Labor Statistics:
- Librarian.
- Reporter.
- Teacher.
- Writer.
Boston Globe's "Confidential Chat," Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
British Journalists & Newspapers: 1700-1920, Spartacus Educational.
Committee to Protect Journalists.
Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley.
Create Your Own Newspaper.
Deutsche Welle:

Free Newspapers for the Blind, National Federation of the Blind.
History Channel:
- 08/19/1848: New York Herald Reports Discovery of Gold in California.
- 08/20/1862: Horace Greeley Editorial Calls for Emancipation of All Slaves.
- 10/21/1910: Bomb Destroys the Los Angeles Times Building: 20 die.
- 02/10/1971: Four Journalists Die in Vietnam Helicopter Crash.
- 08/20/1971: FBI Investigates Daniel Schorr's Criticisms of Vietnam War.
- 09/01/1976: Wall Street Journal Publishes First Edition for Europe.
The History of the Associated Press, The Associated Press.
Indiana Newspaper Holdings Guide, Indiana State Library.
Indiana Newspaper Project , Indiana Historical Society.
The Insider: K-12 TLC Guide.
John Peter Zenger Trial: 1735 (links), University of Missouri-Kansas City.
K-12 Student Newspapers On Line.
Kipling the Young Journalist, The Kipling Society.
Library of Congress:
- 09/21/1784: America's First Daily Newspaper Is Published.
The Media History Project.
Museum of Broadcast Communications.
National Public Radio:
- 2000: Chicago Tribune Buys Los Angeles Times (audio).
- 2000: Death of Jouranlist in Ukraine:
  - Body Believed to be Ukraine Journalist (audio: 4:24).
  - Ukraine Government Denies Guilt (audio: 3:24).
- 2000: Killing of Journalists in Sierre Leone:
  - Journalist Killings in Sierra Leone (audio: 1:17).
  - Two Journalists Killed in Sierra Leone (audio: 3:30).
- 2000 Merger of the San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner:
  - Examiner Controversy (audio: 3:00).
  - Chronicle & Examiner Merger (audio: 4:28).
- ABC News Under Fire for Payment to Murder Suspect.
- American Editor Brings U.S. Savvy to Jihad Outreach.
- American Media's True Ideology.
- British Newspapers Bloopers: 4/20/00 (3:38).
- California Press Shield Law: 11/2/99 (3:40).
- Campaign Journalism: Whose Interest?: 2/3/00 (6:00).
- Cartoon Furor Met with Muted Response in Sweden.
- Colombian Journalists in Danger:
- Confidential: The 'National Enquirer' of the 1950s.
- Dangers for Reporters in Afghanistan.
- Doing Time, and Doing Good, in Louisiana's Angola Prison.
- 'Doonesbury' Writer Lampoons Tweeting Journalists.
- The Ethics of Kids in the Media: 4/16/00 (4:30).
- For the Love of the Newspaper Business: 11/27/00 (4:00).
- George Weller, Reporting from Nagasaki.
- Helen Thomas Tells the President to 'Listen Up'.
- The History of ABC's Nightline: 3/24/00 (8:37).
- A History of Yearbooks.
- How the L.A. Times Broke the Bell Corruption Story.
- Interview: 1/18/00 (9:00).
- Investigating Murder of Journalists in Chile: 12/8/0 (3:38).
- Little Rock Editor Faced Down Segregationists.
- The Media and Corporate Influence: 1/12/00 (5:05).
- Medium and Message, Hold Steady for Amish Paper.
- Mexican Journalists Flee Drug War, Seek Asylum.
- More Than Just a Magazine, 'Gourmet' Says Goodbye.
- New York Times Mea Culpa (audio: 4:30).
- News Photography (commentary): 12/22/99 (3:00).
- Newspapers and New Technology: 4/20/00 (4:36).
- Newspapers Wade into an Online-Only Future.
- 'The Onion': Mocking All Who Deserve It Since 1988.
- Only Israeli Journalist in Palestine: 5/7/00 (8:30).
- Peanuts Void (audio: 3:45).
- The Perilous Job of Conflict Photography.
- 'Poisoning the Press' Recounts Nixon-Anderson Feud.
- Political Ads and Accuracy: 4/5/00 (6:15).
- Political Bias of the Press: 11/7/99 (2:59).
- The Satire of National Lampoon.
- Silencing the Media in Iran (audio: 3:30).
- Slaying Prompts Juarez Paper to Weigh Coverage.
- Small Street Journal: 11/11/99 (3:25).
- Small Towns & National Elections: 9/24/00 (9:30).
- Source of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Execution Photo Revealed.
- Students Break Immigration Story (audio: 3:36).
- Vietnam War Correspondents Reunion (audio: 5:00).
- What's the Point of Journalism School, Anyway?
- Why 'GQ' Doesn't Want Russians to Read Its Story.
- Women Journalists Dodge Bullets, Sexual Assault.
National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s, University of Virginia.
News21:

Official Web Site.

National Public Radio:

Journalism for the 21st Century.

Newspaper Collectors Society of America.
Newspapers in Education Week (First Week of March):

NIE Online.
West Virginia Reading Association.

On-This-Date:
- 08/22/1762: First Female Editor of American Newspaper.
- 12/04/1791: Britain's Observer Newspaper First Published.
- 09/04/1833: New York Sun Hires the First Newspaper Boy.
- 10/17/1933:News-Week (Newsweek) First Published.
- 08/28/1941: Football Writers Assoc. of America Organized.
- 08/28/1981: New York Daily News Final Afternoon Edition.
Seattle Newspaper Guild Strike: K-12 TLC Guide.
Smithsonian Magazine:
- The Newsroom Rush of Old.
- One Newspaper to Rule Them All.
- Top 10 Unforgettable Editorials.
Suite 101.
Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The Virginia Newspaper Project, The University of Virginia.
Web English Teacher.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.: K-12 TLC Guide.
WireImage.
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus": K-12 TLC Guide.

Journalism

Journalists

Sports Broadcasting/Journalism: K-12 TLC Guide.

King Features Syndicates.
National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
National Public Radio:
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault 50 Years After Making History.
- Mexican Journalists Flee Drug War, Seek Asylum.
Alegr�a, Ciro: K-12 TLC Guide.
Allende, Isabel: K-12 TLC Guide.
Atkinson, Brooks: K-12 TLC Guide.
Balmaseda, Liz: K_12 TLC Guide.
Barber, Walter Lanier "Red": K-12 TLC Guide.
Bernstein, Carl: K-12 TLC Guide.
Billings, Josh: K-12 TLC Guide.
Bly, Nellie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Bradlee, Ben: K-12 TLC Guide.

Bradley, Ed: K-12 TLC Guide.

Broun, Haywood Campbell: K-12 TLC Guide.

Buchwald, Art: K-12 TLC Guide.

Bryant, William Cullen: K-12 TLC Guide.

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd: K-12 TLC Guide.

Crouch, Stanley: K-12 Guide.

Chung, Connie: K-12 TLC Guide:
Cooke, Alister: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cronkite, Walter Leland, Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Couric, Katie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Creel, George: K-12 TLC Guide.
Davis, Richard Harding: K-12 TLC Guide.
Douglass, Frederick: K-12 TLC Guide.
Dow, Charles Henry: K-12 TLC Guide.
Dunnigan, Alice: K-12 TLC Guide.
Dwight, John Sullivan: K-12 TLC Guide.
Field, Eugene: K-12 TLC Guide.
Forbes, Malcolm: K-12 TLC Guide.
Fortune, T. Thomas: K-12 TLC Guide.
Franklin, Ann: First Female Editor of an American Newspaper, On-This-Date.
Frayn, Michael: K-12 TLC Guide.
Frost, David: K-12 TLC Guide.

Gonzalez, Juan D.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Graham, Katharine, Smithsonian Magazine.

Greeley, Horace: K-12 TLC Guide
Grossman, David: K-12 TLC Guide.

Harvey, Paul: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hearst, William Randolph: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hersh, Seymour: K-12 TLC Guide.
Hewitt, Don: K-12 TLC Guide.

Ivins, Molly: K-12 TLC Guide.

Just, Ward: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lang, Andrew: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lehrer, Jim (James Charles): K-12 TLC Guide.
Lewis, Anthony:
Liebling, A.J.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lipsyte, Robert: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lorimer, George Horace: K-12 TLC.

Lovejoy, Elijah P.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Luce, Clare Boothe: K-12 TLC Guide.

Luce, Henry Robinson (Apr 3, 1898 - d. Feb 28, 1967):

Luce, Clare Boothe: K-12 TLC Guide.

Henry Luce Foundation.
National Public Radio:

The Publisher: On Henry Luce.
A Publishing Titan's 'Life' And 'Time'.

Lundy, Benjamin: K-12 TLC Guide.

McClure, S.S.: K-12 TLC Guide.
McCutcheon, John T.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Mollenhoff, Clark: K-12 TLC Guide.

Moln�r, Ferenc: K-12 TLC Guide.

Murrow, Edward R.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Nast, Cond�, Library of Congress.
Nast, Thomas: K-12 TLC Guide.

Newman, Edwin: K-12 TLC Guide.

Nye, Edgar Wilson (Bill): K-12 TLC Guide.

O'Brien, Soledad: K-12 TLC Guide.

Ochs, Adolph S.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Osgood, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide.
Paley, William S: K-12 TLC Guide.
Parsons, Louella: K-12 TLC Guide.
Paterson, Andrew Barton "Banjo": K-12 TLC Guide.
Pauley, Jane: K-12 TLC Guide.
Pearson, Drew: K-12 TLC Guide:
Perelman, SJ: K-12 TLC Guide.
Pulitzer, Joseph: K-12 TLC Guide.
Pyle, Ernie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Quiroz, Lisa.
Rather, Dan: K-12 TLC Guide.
Rice, Grantland: K-12 TLC Guide.
Riis, Jacob: K-12 TLC Guide.
Roberts, Cokie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Rollins, Kirby: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ross, Harold: K-12 TLC Guide.
Roth, Joseph: K-12 TLC Guide.
Runyon, Damon: K-12 TLC Guide.
Russwurm, John Brown: K-12 TLC Guide.
Safire, William: K-12 TLC Guide.
Salisbury, Harrison: K-12 TLC Guide.
Saralegui, Cristina: K-12 TLC Guide.
Schorr, Daniel: K-12 TLC Guide:
Scott, C.A.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Sengstacke, John: K-12 TLC Guide.

Shaw, Benard: K-12 TLC Guide.
Shawn, William: K-12 TLC Guide.
Sheehy, Gail: K-12 TLC Guide.
Shriver, Maria: K-12 TLC Guide.
Smith, Harry: K-12 TLC Guide.
Smith, W. Eugene: K-12 TLC Guide.
Stanley, Henry Morton: K-12 TLC Guide.
Steinem, Gloria: K-12 TLC Guide.
Sullivan, Ed: K-12 TLC Guide.
Tarbell, Ida M.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Thomas, Lowell: K-12 TLC Guide.
Trillin, Calvin: K-12 TLC Guide.
Uibopuu, Valev: K-12 TLC Guide.
Wallace, DeWitt: K-12 TLC Guide.
Walters, Barbara: K-12 TLC Guide.
Weller, George, National Public Radio.
Will, George: K-12 TLC Guide.
Winchell, Walter: K-12 TLC Guide.
Woodward, Bob: K-12 TLC Guide.
Y��ez, Agust�n: K-12 TLC Guide.
Zenger, John Peter: K-12 TLC Guide.

National Public Radio (audio):
- Carl Rowan: 9/23/00 (2:30).
- Daniel Schorr and Patrick Buchanan: 11/7/99 (2:24).
- George Koltanowski: Chess Columnist: 2/7/00 (4:30).
- Jacobo Timerman: 11/12/99 (4:30).
- Judy Muller's Career in Journalism: 4/14/00 (8:28).
- Robert Trout: 11/14/00 (8:00).
- Zeljko Kopanje & Press Freedom Award: 11/18/00 (9:15).

Journalism

Journalists
At War

Deghati, Reza: K-12 TLC Guide.

Ernie Pyle: K-12 TLC Guide.
War: K-12 TLC Guide.

American Journalism Review.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Australian Department of Veterans Affairs.
BBC:

Covering the War in Iraq.
World War One.

CBS News.
Hoover Digest.
International Federation of Journalists.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
National Public Radio:

Covering the War in Vietnam.
The Iraq War.

Dangers, Risks, Casualties:

Arlington National Cemetary.
Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Freedom Forum.
Harvard University.
Human Rights Watch.
Society of Professional Journalists.
UNESCO.

Women:

Women: K-12 TLC Guide.

DefenseLink.
International Women's Media Foundation.
Library of Congress.
Old Dominium University.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

04/18/1945: Death of Ernie Pyle: Journalists At War.

Journalism

Muckrakers

Monopolies: K-12 TLC Guide.
Standard Oil Monopoly: K-12 TLC Guide.
Tarbell, Ida M(inerva): K-12 TLC Guide.

Grades 10-12:

The Standard Oil Monopoly, Springfield High School, PA.

Journalism

K-12 TLC Guide to Timelines & Chronologies

1848
Aug 19	New York Herald Reports the Discovery of Gold in California
1862
Aug 20	Greeley Editorial Calls for Emancipation of Slaves
1971
Aug 20	FBI Investigates Daniel Schorr Vietnam War Criticisms

Journalism

Freedom
of the
Press

Freedom of Information Day (March 16th).
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: K-12 TLC Guide.
Media: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Pentagon Papers: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Trial of John Peter Zenger: K-12 TLC Guide.

Article XIX.
Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
Committee to Protect Journalists.
Damocles.
Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society.
International Federation of Journalists.
International Freedom of Expression and Exchange.
International Media Support.
International Press Institute.
Marxists Internet Archive.
National Public Radio:
- Gulf Oil Spill Reporters Face Security Hurdles.
- Leaking the Treaty of Hidalgo.
Open Society Institute.
Pen Canada.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Reporters without Borders.
Search for Common Ground.
United Nations.
U.S. Department of State:

The First Amendment and Freedom of the Press.

Wikileaks: K-12 TLC Guide.
World Association of Newspapers.
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.
World Press Freedom Committee.
World Press Freedom Day:

UNESCO.
United Nations.

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

05/03: United Nations' World Press Freedom Day.

11/17/1734: The Trial of John Peter Zenger.

Journalism

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

01/15/1870: The Donkey Is First Used to Represent the Democratic Party.

04/18/1945: Death of Ernie Pyle: Journalists At War.

05/03: United Nations' World Press Freedom Day.

09/01/1939: Nazi Germany's Invasion of Poland.

11/17/1734: The Trial of John Peter Zenger.


Cary, Mary Ann Shadd Cather, Willa Douglass, Frederick Fortune, T. Thomas Pulitzer, Joseph Russwurm, John B. Tarbell, Ida Wells-Barnett, Ida

Language Arts Teacher Resources.
Research & Writing Teacher Resources.

Grades 3-5:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Current Events.
  - Scavenger Hunt.
Grades 3-12:
- Educator's Reference Desk.
Grades 4-5:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Forming Opinions.
  - 'Toon Tic Tac Toe.
Grades 4-6:
- Abbreviations and Acronyms, Educator's Reference Desk.
Grades 4-12:
- School Newspaper, Michigan State University.
Grades 5-8:
- Photojournalism: A Record of War,
  Chris Fricke and Glenda Ritz, The Library of Congress.
Grades 5-12:
- History Newspapers, Debbie Prasuhn,
  North Central High School, Northeast Schools.
Grades 6-8:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Analyzing Editorial Cartoons.
  - Cartoon Symbol Bingo.
  - Current Events.
  - Forming Opinions.
  - Scavenger Hunt.
Grades 7-8:
- Africanized Honey Bees and The Press,
  The University of Arizona.
Grades 7-12:
- Fact Checking The News, Michigan State University.
- Nuclear News, Shannon Hudson,
  Tuttle Middle School, Crawfordsville Schools.
Grades 9-12:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Analyzing Editorial Cartoons.
  - Cartoon Symbol Bingo.
  - Current Events.
  - Forming Opinions.
  - Scavenger Hunt.
Grades 10-12:
- News In German, Nancy Overman Johnson,
  Center Grove High School,
  Center Grove Community School Corporation.
- The Standard Oil Monopoly, Springfield High School, PA.
Other:

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This guide last edited 01/03/2012
This guide last revised 02/19/2009

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