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Doing News foregrounds active exploration, simulation and independent student enquiry to investigate key media concepts and practices. The pack offers exciting production tasks, case studies and lively approaches to analysing print, online and TV news. Resources have been carefully selected to prompt discussion of a variety of issues and debates about the ways news is understood, used, produced, and represented. 224-page print resource * Structured analytic activities for GCSE English and Media Studies on contextualising news languages across a range of formats and media. * Investigations into newspaper readership, marketing and ownership, useful for GCSE and A Level Media Studies. * Provocative approaches to news regulation, institutions and technologies, tackled through historical overviews, role-plays, simulations and mini-case studies of particular interest to Media A Level students. * Opportunities, through production work and research, to debate and critically evaluate news values, editorial dilemmas, and cross-media representations of celebrity, and local and international news events. * Many activities raise issues relevant to Citizenship, General Studies and Sociology.* Challenging activities designed to develop critical and independent research skills. 100-minute DVD * 24-hour news coverage of Prince Harry's fancy-dress faux pas. * Historic TV newspaper advertisements and BBC title sequences. * Extracts from five TV news clips broadcast on the same day, for analysis and comparison. * Case study extracts exploring the representation of major international news stories including 9/11, the Michael Jackson trial and the fall of Kabul. * Interviews with Jon Snow, journalists and writers from The Independent, and with campaigning journalist Yvonne Ridley.

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'There is something wonderfully reassuring about materials that come from the English and Media Centre with tried and trusted approaches, excellent case studies and contributions from industry professionals giving an insight into how media industries work. ... The pack comprises a large format book crammed to the edge of every page with a startling array of case study material and a DVD with over an hour's worth of video, plus a slideshow of photographs and a pdf version of the print material for use on a video projector. The book and the DVD are complementary and overall this is an intelligent use of technologies to provide the means for teachers to organise the material in a classroom with computers and interactive whoteboard etc. So what do you get? ... Topics cover issues that are relevant in relation to all the key concepts, so there are activities associated with the visual language of newspapers and television, the structure of news stories, 'news values'. audience and institution issues, changing technologies etc. You'd be hard-pressed to find a possible topic that isn't covered in some way...Ninety quid sounds like a lot of money, but compared to the oceans of money spent by schools on dubious consultancies and traning schemes, it's a fantastic bargain. Buy this pack now and you won't be stuck for ideas or materials for teaching news for a long time to come.' Roy Stafford, In the Picture , June 2006 Students will soon be genuinely absorbed, educated and entertained by the depth of the material, and by its variety...As always with EMC resoruces, there is anenlightened approach to classroom activities - pair work, group role-play, individual tutorials with the resource, and so on - rather than an emphasis on teacher-led work, However, this variety and openness is offered against the background of the book's encyclopaedic coverage. ... This pack is a bargain at just under GBP90 and should cover schools' teaching of he news media at three key stages for quite a few years to come...This is certainly a resource that's going on my shelf for daily use, and is likely to appear on my classroom DVD player at all key stages. Heartily recommended.' Gareth Calway, Head of English and Media Studies, Smithdon High School, Hunstanton in The Secondary English Magazine, June 2006 'So pleased with the one already ordered, we are ordering another.' Churchdown School, Gloucestershire

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