Name: Lesson 5: Quality of News Reports
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T05:00:53.000Z
Duration: 4 min 1 s
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In this lesson, we present seven steps to help you judge the quality of news reporting.

Be able to recognize and restate the main points of the story on intelligent news.

Consumer asks, what are the facts and how are they presented?

How has the reporter confirmed the evidence?

Step three sources consider the sources of the story.

How many people did the reporter speak with?

Are they named or not identified in the story?

The level of openness in the news organization.

Is there something to provide context such as background information for history?

Does the reporter have a command of the subject of the report?

The five W's are important pieces of information missing.

Self examination Are you open to fairness as a news consumer?

Do you have opinions or beliefs that could influence your judgment?

Perhaps Step seven is the most important of the seven steps.

Are you more likely to believe a story if it confirms your preexisting beliefs?

Confirmation bias is a sort of blindness that leads news consumers to seek out information they want to be true.

A smart news consumer seeks out information from multiple sources weighing the reputation of each source and comparing their coverage.

Using the's seven steps, a reader or listener can decide the quality and truthfulness of news reports.

 In our final lesson, Way will consider journalistic responsibility in the age of social media. 