In-class activity related to READING MATTERS TEXTS 21, 22 and 23 continued.

19 Novembro 2020, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Preparing an oral report on one of the following texts: in-class activity continued:

TEXT 21: When Is it Ethical to Publish Stolen Data | Nieman Reports

TEXT 22: How to Deter Doxxing | Nieman Reports

TEXT 23: Where Does Journalism End and Activism Begin? | Nieman Reports

Instructions: You should read TEXTS 21, 22 and 23 and then choose one of them to do the following oral assignment:

Choose 3 passages that address relevant aspects. These may give key information, back up the information given, or summarise the author’s key points. They might also be passages that strike your fancy for some reason, are particularly well written, or might be controversial or contradictory with other passages or other information learned in class.

In your answer, you will need to include a summary of each passage, and an explanation of why you think each passage is important. 

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY, 23rd November: 

Further to the task related to READING MATTERS TEXTS 21, 22, and 23, each one of you should send me a video recording of your oral report by Monday 23rd November. There is no time limit, but 5 to 6 minutes should be sufficient.

HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, 24th November: Do the vocabulary-expansion exercise related to TEXTS 21, 22 and 23 at home. The answers will be checked on Tuesday.

In-class activity related to READING MATTERS TEXTS 21, 22 and 23.

17 Novembro 2020, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Discussion of TEXTS 11 & 12 and David Puttnam's TEDx talk continued.

Preparing an oral report on one of the following texts: in-class activity (to be continued in Thursday's class):

TEXT 21: When Is it Ethical to Publish Stolen Data | Nieman Reports

TEXT 22: How to Deter Doxxing | Nieman Reports

TEXT 23: Where Does Journalism End and Activism Begin? | Nieman Reports

Instructions: You should read TEXTS 21, 22 and 23 and then choose one of them to do the following oral assignment:

Choose 3 passages that address relevant aspects. These may give key information, back up the information given, or summarise the author’s key points. They might also be passages that strike your fancy for some reason, are particularly well written, or might be controversial or contradictory with other passages or other information learned in class.

In your answer, you will need to include a summary of each passage, and an explanation of why you think each passage is important. 

REMINDER: Even though you will be focusing on one of these texts, please remember that everyone should be familiar with the contents of all texts as these are topics you may have to address in the test.

Two press reviews. Oral reports on TEXTS 11 and 12 and TEDx talk.

16 Novembro 2020, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Oral presentations continued - The Week in review. Your pick of stories: Carolina Sousa; Inês Reis.

Curbs on freedom of speech: the Streisand effect; super injunctions.

12 Novembro 2020, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Discussing curbs on freedom of speech: The Streisand effect and  super injunctions as addressed in the following READING MATTERS TEXTS:

TEXT 24: "Prominent Britons Use ‘Super Injunctions’ to Shush Scandals in Papers" | The New York Times

TEXT 25: "Streisand Effect Takes Hold As Turkey Bans Twitter" | Forbes

TEXT 26: "The Economist explains: What is the Streisand effect" | The Economist

Invasion of privacy and newsworthiness.

Editorials continued: creating a short evidence-based editorial.

10 Novembro 2020, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Editorials continued: (1) Analysing the structure and contents of two editorials continued  -(a) TEXT 11: "Race and marijuana arrests" (New York Times) and TEXT 12: "Prison works ..." (The Independent); (2) Brainstorming topics for an evidence-based editorial; choosing the topic for your editorial; (3) Creating your own editorial: a step-by-step approach. HOMEWORK: Write your own evidence-based editorial (assignment due on 17th November).