Lecture 3: What is a journalist?

People and Roles

Reporter

• Different beats http://www.theglobeandmail.com/?ord=1
• News
• Weather
• Sports
• Local Government
• Business/Markets
• Science
• Medicine/Health
• Fashion/leisure/arts

Public relations

• flac, 
• propagandist,
• proselytizer, 
• salesman -- sponsored content, advertorial, native advertising
• pays well

Aggregator

• emerging as a more important in digital environments
• bring resources together as opposed to original reporting
• digital tools allow us to get a drink from the fire hose. 
• maybe AI

Journalist

• objective/vs subjective 
• Neutral point of view
• Stated bias up front. 
• critical thinker
• systematic analysis based on theoretical framework
• Speak to and for the public 

Investigative Journalist

• Exposing problems
• Witness
• proposing solutions
• heads roll

Applications and Practices for this week.

• Storify
• Hypothes.is
• Google Docs
• Zotero
• Google Scholar
• Google Alerts 
• Google Trends