Exercises

Chapter 3 - The Basic News Story Writing Exercises

• Writing Exercise: Census Story
  • U.S. Census Educational Attainment (for textbook exercise 5.)
• Writing Exercise: Basic News Story 2 (for textbook exercise 7.)
  

• Grammar Bytes: a fun, interactive site of grammar exercises. A favorite with students.
• 50 common spelling errors: If you think you spell well, take this challenging test by Mindy McAdams, a distinguished Knight professor of online journalism at the University of Florida.
• The John Bremner Editing Test - the toughest editing test you may ever take. Created by the late John Bremner, a former professor at the University of Kansas and nationally respected editing coach. Don't peek but check your answers after you take the test.
• The Tongue Untied: A guide to grammar, punctuation and style for journalists ( an interactive site with exercises developed by Kelle Weingold for pre-journalism majors at the University of Oregon)

Chapter 6 - Sources and Online Research

• Online source scavenger hunt 1 (government sources)
• Online source scavenger hunt 2 (general and personal info)

Chapter 20 - Speeches, Press Conferences and Meetings

• 20-1. Speech story. Printer copy.
  Speech by Burl Osborne, editor of the Dallas Morning News, about political correctness.
  
  
• 20-2. Press Conference. (Printer copy)
  Press conference from Richard Jewell, a former suspect in the Olympic Park bombing case, who talks about the agony he endured from the media and FBI.
• 20-3. Speech by Attorney General John Ashcroft to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

Chapter 25 - Computer-assisted Journalism

• Hate crimes database exercise