Unit 7: Journalism and the news industry

I have made a survey using survey monkey to get answers for my article, I then sent it to my yoga teacher who suggested putting it on her facebook wall for her friends to complete and I got 29 responses which has been very helpful. I didnt have any problems doing this because I sent my survey to three people at first who teach yoga and I aksed them to help me by sending it to anyone they know who also participates in yoga

The article I have chosen is about health. I have chosen to write about this topic because i think it is interesting learning about how to keep healthy etc. I am going to be talking about yoga in the form of health as it keeps your mind and body calm. To access sources I am going to meet with the woman who runs alot of different types of yoga classes for a variety of people, so i will interview her getting types of information what could help with my article. Questions for my interview What are the health benefits of yoga? Has yoga changed your life, if so how? What is the hardest pose you can do? Is yoga for everyone? Do you have to be flexible to do yoga? How is yoga different from stretching? How long do you do yoga for? What made you start doing yoga? What advice would you give for beginners? Survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/M9WZ22G

Sport Music Entertainment Community Eductaion Animal Care Politics Mindmap three ideas from topics above. Write what sources you could access to get information about these Health- Article about yoga- unity yoga new yoga place do a vaiety of different types of yoga, interview with woman who runs the classes asks about how successful it has already been,also promoting people to go to it. Music- Interview with brothers band is primary research talking about their songs, how to got to play in tramlines, any future ideas about new tracks etc Community- Abondened buildings talking about them needed to be secured properly so people cant get in them and people need to be careful in them I am going to be doing an article about Health and yoga/meditation how it calms your mind etc, an interview with the woman who runs it why she  started getting into yoga, how successful she has already been with it, how she wants to get more people to start it. ...

Evaluating  sources and information Reliability (e.g use of field experts, first hand eye-witnesses, authority- official v sbordinate, use of primary and secondary definers) Relevance Accuracy( cross referencing) Validty Accessibility Quality Cost effective

Secondary Research Researching the internet Newspapers/ Magazines Taking information from other webpages Books/ Journals- language barriers State research papers(government stats)- manipulated TV documentaries/films Social media- existing comments biased Advantages of using the internet to access research is that its free and quicker to access, however a weakness is that it could be false information. An advantage of using newspapers and magazines to collect secondary  research is that its easy to find, however a disadvantage is that its not always a trustworthy source depending on what company it is so could be biased. TV documentaries are good for accessing information because usually its always true as the facts and figures cant be changed like they can on the internet, however a disadvantage is that it could be less credable and it is made to make money

This article was publishes on The Independant The article is talking about Shona Grice who got her throat cut by her obsessed ex boyfriend as she told police 6 months before it haopened warning him about her then got fined for wasting police time as there was no hard evidence.  The article was publishes on the 19th March to inform the audience about the serious issue of crimes in the UK and for all of them to be taken seriously. The purpose of the article is to infrom the ABC1 audience about the death of this young girl. The mode of address of this article in formal as it was published on The Independant and is reporting of what happened to this girl and her ex boyfriend. They use paragraphing and elaboarte coding for the higher abc1 audience to understand. Reported quotes from Mr Lane following the accusations. He said: “I saw her slumped against the bed. She wasn’t moving. I saw blood on the bed and blood on the floor." he is using formal language to make it out like he ...

This article was published on The Sun The article is talking about a young girl and her best friend who went missing hours after being slashed in her face with a knife by a gang of girls. The article was published on the 20th March although the girls went missing on the 15th March at around 6pm. The location of the article was in Meryside where the girls lived. The purpose of this article is to inform the C2DE audience of these two missing girls and if anyone sees them to get in touch The mode of address for this article is formal as it is a serious article however there is mostly short sentences to describe the girls about what happened on that day and what they look like etc. "A TEENAGE girl has vanished hours after her face was slashed open in a terrifying knife attack by a gang of girls, her sister claims." this is used to inform the reader on exactly what happened so therefore why she might have gone missing . The tone of this article is ...