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The Flow of Information

One or more days after...

...something happens, articles appear in newspapers/newswires; information is disseminated on TV, radio, and the Web. Depending on what happened, the information may be prolific or sparse.

NEWSPAPERS, TV AND RADIO TRANSCRIPTS, NEWS SOURCES ON THE WEB

Audience: General public.
Coverage: Any subject of interest, newsworthy events, local coverage.
Written/Scripted By: Professional journalists, some articles or presentations are contributed by specialists.
Timelines: Up-to-date coverage (one-half day to a week)
Length: 50 - 2,000 words.
Content: Dependent upon the type of article or presentation: analysis, statistics, graphics, photographs, editorial opinion; no bibliography or list of sources.
Slant: Tends to be mainstream/neutral.

Sample topics...

Sample topic 1: The election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa on May 9, 1994.

Newspaper: Drogin, Bob. "It's a 'New Era,' Says Officially Elected Mandela; South Africa: President Is Chosen Unanimously by Nation's First All-Race Parliament. Afterward, He Addresses Thousands of Wildly Cheering Supporters." Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1994, home ed.: A1, col.5, foreign desk.

Sample topic 2: Zen Buddhist meditation in contemporary American culture.

Newspaper: Article about the lecture and visit to the San Francisco Zen Center of a former American Buddhist monk, Robert Thurman --

Hamlin, Jesse. "Happy Thoughts: Tibet Scholar and Former Monk Robert Thurman Prescribes Buddhism for a Stressed-Out World." San Francisco Chronicle 20 Jan. 2000, final ed., Daily Datebook: E1.

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