Assignment for Feb. 13

If any of the media news items in this blog prompt questions, please bring them to class.

1) Continue to refresh your knowledge of the AP Stylebook. Everything you write should follow AP style. Yes, accuracy, grammar and spelling count.

2) Catch up on your reading if you have fallen behind. Make sure you have read these links about juvenile offenders and journalism ethics in order to participate in the next class:

• Taking Back a Fact
• Identifying Juveniles
• Doing Ethics: Ask Good Questions to Make Good Ethical Decisions
• Should the news media reveal the name of a juvenile murder suspect before the police have charged him?
• Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
• Juvenile Justice

3) Do exercise 1 on page 427. Remember to type, double-spaced. If you email you work, send it as an attachment.

4) Be prepared for some press conference role-playing with the "police chief" during our next class. Don't be reluctant to ask pointed questions. Sphere: Related Content