Welcome to the Breaking News Exercise — an interactive, experiential learning activity in which you will play the part of a reporter on the breaking news desk of a small community newspaper.
Throughout the course of the day, you will be filing updates to your newspaper's Website. You will also be preparing one final article for your paper's print edition. You'll be helped along by a motley collection of sources, an eccentric group of fellow reporters and a surly, old, cigar-chomping news editor — but it is up to you to provide your community with the most accurate and complete information as the day unfolds.
Our story begins on a lazy Saturday afternoon in late September. A light breeze is wafting through the town. There's a big high school football game scheduled for tonight, but other than that, it's looking like another slow news day...
Throughout the course of the day, you will be filing updates to your newspaper's Website. You will also be preparing one final article for your paper's print edition. You'll be helped along by a motley collection of sources, an eccentric group of fellow reporters and a surly, old, cigar-chomping news editor — but it is up to you to provide your community with the most accurate and complete information as the day unfolds.
Our story begins on a lazy Saturday afternoon in late September. A light breeze is wafting through the town. There's a big high school football game scheduled for tonight, but other than that, it's looking like another slow news day...
