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Making News Today: A Tool For Adoption Of Ethics Principles Using Technology¿Supported Television Journalism, David Blackall, Barry Harper, Lori Lockyer Jul 2013

Making News Today: A Tool For Adoption Of Ethics Principles Using Technology¿Supported Television Journalism, David Blackall, Barry Harper, Lori Lockyer

Professor Lori Lockyer

There are movements internationally towards curricula that incorporate values and citizenship education. In Australia, this movement has been illustrated with the adoption of a national curriculum in values education. This has arisen from the perceived need for citizens to hold values around the rights and responsibilities of functioning within a democracy. The Making News Today programme has been designed to develop a range of literacies enabling learners, for example, to read the media beyond the interests of the elite. The programme incorporates a journalistic process for television news production for middle school students using laptop and handheld video technologies, with …


Making News Today: Content Creation In The Classroom, Natalie Cooper, Lisa Thomas, Lori Lockyer, Ian Brown Jul 2013

Making News Today: Content Creation In The Classroom, Natalie Cooper, Lisa Thomas, Lori Lockyer, Ian Brown

Professor Lori Lockyer

The continued development of software such as iMovie and GarageBand has given young people the tools to become content creators. The proliferation of Internet sites such as YouTube and MySpace have provided publishing vehicles where they can now contribute their content and communicate with their peers around the world. Social commentators and educational researchers are suggesting there is a growing divide between how these digital natives spend their leisure time creating and sharing media and the void of such activities in educational settings. It is argued that learning is, in fact, taking place for young people in this informal environment. …


Deconstructing Cancer: What Makes A Good-Quality News Story?, Amanda Wilson, Billie Bonevski, Alison Jones, David Henry Sep 2012

Deconstructing Cancer: What Makes A Good-Quality News Story?, Amanda Wilson, Billie Bonevski, Alison Jones, David Henry

Alison L Jones

Objective: To describe an in-depth analysis of the content and quality of stories about new cancer interventions in Australian media. Design and setting: Search of the Media Doctor Australia media-monitoring website for stories about newly reported cancer interventions, including drugs, diagnostic tests, surgery and complementary therapies, that had been collected from June 2004 to June 2009 and rated for quality using a validated rating instrument. A mixed-methods approach was used to analyse data and story content. Data from the website on stories about other new health interventions and procedures were compared. Main outcome measures: Differences in quality scores between cancer-related …


Drop Out From Residential Treatment: Is It All Bad News?, C Morgan, Peter Kelly, Frank Deane, Trevor Crowe Jul 2012

Drop Out From Residential Treatment: Is It All Bad News?, C Morgan, Peter Kelly, Frank Deane, Trevor Crowe

Peter Kelly

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Fm Radio News: Spreading The News Or Spread Too Thin?, Denise Raward, Jane Johnston Jun 2009

Fm Radio News: Spreading The News Or Spread Too Thin?, Denise Raward, Jane Johnston

Jane Johnston

United Kingdom investigative reporter Nick Davies has coined the term 'churnalism' to describe the UK print media's reliance on wire copy and press releases for the vast majority of its news. This study looks at this trend in Australia, focusing on the FM radio industry and a case study of one radio station which also serves as a news 'hub' for a national network. Davies found that up to 80 per cent of Fleet Street news is based on wire service, other media or press releases. This Australian FM newsroom study found nearly 90 per cent of networked news bulletins …


Media Framing And Policy Change After Columbine, Thomas Birkland, Regina Lawrence Dec 2008

Media Framing And Policy Change After Columbine, Thomas Birkland, Regina Lawrence

Thomas A Birkland

The 1999 Columbine school shooting incident in Colorado gained far more media attention across a broader range of issues than any school violence episode before or since. One might expect that Columbine would have had an influence on public opinion, public policy, and scholarship commensurate with the attention it gained. We find that the event did contribute in a limited but interesting way to scholarship on media framing. But the effect of Columbine on public opinion and the nature and substance of public policy was limited. Attention to school shootings peaked with Columbine, and the attention surrounding that event mostly …