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This document outlines an essay definition on news. It introduces news as ever-changing yet respecting core concepts and ideas. News can be hard facts or soft entertainment, informing people while giving them what they want to hear. The body paragraphs define news using examples, discuss how journalism relates to delivering news, and explore the history of newspapers. The conclusion restates that news is always changing, referencing political issues, defines news, and says it exemplifies unrecorded human changes beyond assumptions of focusing on death and war.

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This document outlines an essay definition on news. It introduces news as ever-changing yet respecting core concepts and ideas. News can be hard facts or soft entertainment, informing people while giving them what they want to hear. The body paragraphs define news using examples, discuss how journalism relates to delivering news, and explore the history of newspapers. The conclusion restates that news is always changing, referencing political issues, defines news, and says it exemplifies unrecorded human changes beyond assumptions of focusing on death and war.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Bailey Brammer~ Period 6

Outline on Definition Essay: News


I. Introduction:
-Lead: News is ever changing, ever shifting, and ever respecting the same concepts and ideas.
-News can be hard or soft (informational or entraining)
-it is what the want to hear, but also, what the people need to hear.
-It can be formatted, structured, shared in various ways.

II. Body Paragraph:


-Topic Sentence: What exactly is news?
-Examples of news: flooding, death, birth, war, politics, religion
-Different interpretations of news: what people should be informed of versus what people
want to be informed of
-Different ideas behind writing of news: style aspects, controversy, libel

III. Body Paragraph:


-Topic Sentence: What is "journalism" and how does it relate to news?
-Journalism is style, ethics, pictures, written word, spoken word, anything and
everything.
-How do journalism and news fit under the same umbrella?
-Definition of news vs. definition of journalism.
-How news relates to the real world, and journalism relates to behind the scenes.
-Why is it that people are not as learned in journalism as they should be?
-Tinker and Hazelwood court cases
-Freedom of press/speech

IV. Body Paragraph:


-Topic Sentence: What is the history of news?
-Where did newspapers come from?
-Why did people start writing newspapers?
-What information did people deem shareable when newspapers started out?
-Examples of famous newspaper writers (Ben Franklin, Ernest Hemingway)

V. Conclusion:
-Topic Sentence: News is always changing, therefore there are always new things to be learned
from reporters.
-Reference to why news is ever changing, (example of presidential issues or political
turmoil)
-What is the actual dictionary definition of news?
-What is it that people associate with news? (Death, destruction, hate, war)
-News is so much more than all it is assumed to be, because it exemplifies the changes in
human nature the rest of the world does not record.

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