{"id":991,"date":"2018-09-25T01:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=991"},"modified":"2018-09-25T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T01:35:19","slug":"editorial-judgment-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/editorial-judgment-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial Judgment Exercise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail size-full wp-image-992 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/lg3nHl8xTUUCS9cS25rpQA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/lg3nHl8xTUUCS9cS25rpQA.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/lg3nHl8xTUUCS9cS25rpQA-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/lg3nHl8xTUUCS9cS25rpQA-145x109.jpeg 145w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/lg3nHl8xTUUCS9cS25rpQA-307x230.jpeg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Students in the Macaulay section of MEDIA 211 News Literacy in a Digital Age got a chance to test their news judgment and illustration skills last week.<\/p>\n<p>After learning about the factors news organizations consider when deciding what stories to cover, students broke into teams to determine which of 10 stories from a hypothetical list would make it on to the front page of the journalism program\u2019s new newspaper, <em>The Hunter Athenian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Two teams led with a scoop that Beyonc\u00e9 was kicking off her worldwide tour with a concert at Hunter College (sorry \u2014 just a hypothetical), while the other two teams both led with a story about a \u00a0$25 billion cut in financial aid by the Trump administration \u2014 luckily also hypothetical.<\/p>\n<p>Students say they enjoyed the exercise because it made them think about news values, a story&#8217;s importance vs. interest, and serving the <em>Athenian<\/em>\u2019s audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Macaulay section of MEDIA 211 News Literacy in a Digital Age got a chance to test their news judgment and illustration skills last week. After learning about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,14],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage_news","category-journalism-program-news","category-student-work","tag-news-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}