The world is full of stories, both far afield and in your own backyard. What stories tend to go under-reported, and how can we seek them out? What tools does a journalist use to find and tell stories that engage and inform audiences, while uplifting issues that don't often make headlines?
This series equips students to answer these questions and embark on their own journalistic projects, at home or in their communities. Each lesson contains an instructional video featuring world-class journalists and editors sharing tips on a journalism skill, a printable lesson guide perfect for distance learning or in-class work, and activity prompts to apply students' new knowledge to a creative project of their own.
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Lesson Plans
How To Tell Underreported Stories With Audio
In this lesson, students will analyze how journalists tell underreported stories using audio and apply tips from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists for telling audio stories themselves.
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In this lesson, students analyze how journalists use interviews to research and tell under-reported stories. They then apply those tips to planning, conducting, and editing their own interviews.
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In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe underreported places, and practice the same skills in original writing.
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Lesson Plans
How to Tell Under-Reported Stories with Photography
In this lesson, students will analyze how photojournalists tell under-reported stories using photography and apply tips for doing so themselves from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists.
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Lesson Plans
Finding & analyzing underreported news stories: Critical thinking, text analysis and writing
Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities