Important people in Journalism. Assigned 8/30, due 9/3 - MAJOR

 Overview: In any industry it is important to learn about the history so that you understand the present and future of the industry. To introduce you to some of this history, we will explore some of the important figures in journalism.

Directions: Select two of the journalists listed below (one woman and one man) to research and make a brief Google Slides presentation. You should find at least two sources to verify your facts (wikipedia is a good starting point, but not a great place to pull FACTS). 

Answer each of the following questions below in your presentation:

• Slide 1: (Who) Name of subject with a photo of media figure’s face:

• Slide 2: (When) Date when he/she lived and a picture of significant happening in that person's life. 

• Slide 3 :(Where) Place(s) where he/she worked (What country, state did they live in?):

• Slide 4: (For whom) Where did they work? What publication, TV or Radio Station did they work for:

• Slide 5: (What) Things they did during career (at least 3):

• Slide 6: (Why) Importance of work in journalism?

• Slide 7: (How) How was career/work different or the same from others at the time?

• Repeat slides 1-7 for the other journalist you have selected (so a total of 14 slides)

Make sure you are logged into your AISD account to create this Slide Presentation.

DO NOT SHARE THIS WITH ME AT MY EMAIL ADDRESS. Now that you have a working Google Site, you will be able to use that to turn in almost all of your work. There might be a few things I ask you to email me in the future, but almost every time you will just put links OR the actual product onto your Google Site. 

Here is how to do it for this assignment:

Make sure you change the preferences on this Presentation. To do that, you click the SHARE button in the top right corner. When the pop-up box comes up it will look like this:

Please click the drop down where it says RESTRICTED and change that to:

For this assignment, just being a VIEWER is fine, but there will be assignments in the future that I will need to be made an EDITOR on. I will remind you later.

Once you change the restrictions, click the COPY LINK button on the bottom left.

Then go to your Google Site, make a new subpage and call it Important People in Journalism.

Click the Insert button in the control panel on the right. Use the EMBED function to create a clickable link on your Google Site subpage.

When you have the linked properly. Make sure you go to the top right corner and hit the BIG BLUE PUBLISH button.

You will need to push PUBLISH twice!!

Here is the list:

Women

Elizabeth Jane Cochran, her alias is "Nellie Bly"
Katie Couric
Erma Bombeck
Oriana Fallaci
Katharine Graham
Jane Pauly
Diane Sawyer
Ida Tarbell
Barbara Walters
Christiane Amanpour
Margaret Bourke-White
Joan Didion
Linda Greenhouse

Men

James Gordon Bennett
John Campbell
Walter Cronkite Jr.
Benjamin Day
Horace Greeley
William Randolph Hearst
Peter Jennings
Adolph S. Ochs
Richard F. Outcault
Joseph Pulitzer
Dan Rather
Henry J. Raymond
Noah Wenster
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
John Peter Zenger
Ed Bradley

David Brinkley