Livestation, a tool for teaching journalism
Posted on 04 November 2008 by David Brewer
What a great idea suggested by journalism lecturer Brett Atwood. In his latest blog, aimed at his students, he advises them to download Livestation so that they can examine the different perspectives on news offered by the various news channels on the player.
Brett picked out our official partner channels, Al Jazeera English, Russia Today and BBC World News and a viewer-added channel, Press TV from Iran. He wrote:
“Some of these stations are sponsored by their respective governments and others are private enterprises. Some of these stations present stories that arguably reinforce their respective government "official policies,” while others offer strong reporting that very much falls within the “Murrow paradigm” of traditional journalism. Can you tell the difference? I would like you to “channel surf” through some of these news stations and then write your observations in your blog."
Yet another use for Livestation; a training tool to help students understand the different takes on news and widen their understanding of how and why news is produced.
It’ll be even easier to compare and contrast the different news perspectives when we release the multi-screen view in the near future. An enhancement that I expect will appeal to all journalists.
In another case, a student studying journalism used Livestation in order to gain the perspective needed to answer a question.
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Posted by Anonymous at 16:20 22 November 2008
Posted by Anonymous at 16:20 22 November 2008
Posted by Anonymous at 16:20 22 November 2008
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