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Teach Current Events With These Free Worksheets From The Week Junior

Article summary worksheets and news accuracy tips for grades 3-8! 🗞️

The Week Junior magazine is a kid-friendly, unbiased current events news source. It’s a safe and trusted partner to help you explain to kids what’s happening in the world while providing fun reading content including puzzles, recipes, crafts, and more. 

The benefits of using current events in the classroom are practically endless. News stories help students better understand their communities, new perspectives, and real-world events. Introducing current events in the classroom can promote critical thinking, empathy, reading skills, global awareness, and so much more. Whether you’re assigning weekly current events summaries or conducting a single lesson, our free current events worksheets for grades 3-8 are the perfect companion.

Inside, you’ll find two options for current event summaries. In addition, our savvy news reader tips and activity will guide students through determining if an article is trustworthy. In a world of so many media outlets, news literacy is a crucial skill!

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• When giving current events assignments, give students the option to use one of two article summary worksheets to get started.
• Choose from a graphic organizer–style worksheet or a traditional fill-in worksheet to evaluate an article.

News Accuracy Worksheets

• Begin a lesson on news literacy. Use the list tips to educate students on determining a news article’s accuracy and credibility.
• Then, have students complete the corresponding worksheet to practice what they learned and evaluate a news article on their own.

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8. News as a Source

News sources can provide insights that scholarly sources may not or that will take a long time to get into scholarly sources. For instance, news sources are excellent for finding out people’s actions, reactions, opinions, and prevailing attitudes around the time of an event—as well as to find reports of what happened at the event itself.

Whether news sources are good for your assignment depends on what your research question is. (You’ll find other relevant information in Chapter 3, What Sources to Use When .)

News is a strange term, because even when the information is old, it’s still news. Some sources are great for breaking news, some are great for aggregated (or compiled) news, and others are great for historical news.

While news was transmitted for centuries only in newspapers, news is now transmitted in all formats: via radio, television, and the Internet, in addition to print. Even most newspapers have Internet sites today. At the time of this writing, the Student Government Association at Ohio State University provides an online subscription to The New Yok Times for all students, faculty, and staff at the university.

News must be brief because much of it gets reported only moments after an event happens. News reports occur early in the Information Lifecycle. See the Information Lifecycle video earlier in this chapter for more information.

When Are News Sources Helpful?

• You want to keep up with what is going on in the world today.
• You need breaking news or historical perspectives on a topic (what people were saying at the time).
• You need to learn more about a culture, place, or time period from its own sources.

When Are News Sources of Limited Use?

• You need very detailed analysis by experts.
• You need sources that must be scholarly or modern views on a historical topic.

Activity: Using News Effectively

Mainline and non-mainline news sources.

Mainline American news outlets stick with the tradition of trying to report the news as objectively as possibly. That doesn’t mean their reports are perfectly objective, but they are more objective than non-mainline news sources. As a result, mainline news sources are more credible than non-mainline sources. Some examples of mainline American news outlets: The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , The Chicago Tribune , The Los Angeles Times ; ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, PBS News, NPR News.

News from non-mainline American news outlets is often mixed with opinions. One way they frequently exhibit bias is that they leave out pertinent facts. Some examples of non-mainline American news outlets: MSNBC, Fox News, and reddit.

Types of News Sources

Press Services— News outlets (print, broadcast, and online) get a lot of their news from these services, such as Reuters, Bloomberg, or the Associated Press (AP), which make it unnecessary for individual outlets to send their own reporters everywhere. These services are so broadly used that you may have to look at several news outlets to get a different take on an event or situation.

News aggregators— Aggregators don’t have reporters of their own but simply collect and transmit the news reported by others. Some sources pull news from a variety of places and provide a single place to search for and view multiple stories. You can browse stories or search for a topic. Aggregators tend to have current, but not archival news. Google news and Yahoo News are examples.

Newspaper sites – Many print newspapers also have their own websites. They vary as to how much news they provide for free. Take a look at these examples.

• The Lantern , Ohio State University’s student newspaper
• The Columbus Dispatch
• The Boston Globe
• The Times of London
• China Daily , USA edition
• The New York Times

News Databases – Search current, recent, and historical newspaper content in databases provided free by libraries. OSU Libraries offers 69 news databases to students, staff, and faculty. They include:

• LexisNexis Academic – contains news back to 1980 from newspapers, broadcast transcripts, wire services, blogs, and more.
• Proquest Historical Newspapers – contains older content from several major U.S. newspapers.
• allAfrica – contains more than a million articles from 100 African news sources, 1996-present.
• Lantern Online – contains the archive of all of OSU’s student newspaper issues, 1881-1997.

See the complete list of OSU Libraries’ newspaper databases .

Activity: Choosing a Newspaper Database

Look at the list of OSU Libraries’ newspaper databases available to OSU users. Which one would be a good place to find an article with an international left perspective on a topic? Our answer is at the end of this section.

Broadcast News Sites – Although broadcast news (from radio and television) is generally consumed in real time, such organizations also offer archives of news stories on their websites. However, not all of their articles are provided by their own reporters: some originate from the press services, Reuters and the Associated Press (AP). Here are some examples of broadcast new sites:

Activity: Quick World News Scan

Visit the BBC’s News page and scan the headlines for a quick update on the world’s major news stories.

Social Media – Most of the news outlets listed above contribute to Twitter and Facebook . It’s customary for highly condensed announcements in this venue to lead you back to the news outlet’s website for more information. However, how credible tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google are with news is in serious doubt now that their lawyers have testified to the U.S. Congress that more than 100 million users may have seen content actually created by Russian operatives on the tech companies’ platforms leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.  Read more about their testimony at  NPR  and  The New York Times. 

Blogs – Sometimes these are good sources for breaking news, as well as commentary on current events and scholarship. Authors who write more objectively elsewhere can share more insights and opinions, more initial questions and findings about a study before they are ready to release definitive data and conclusions about their research.

Citizen Journalism – A growing number of sites cater to those members of the general public who want to report breaking news and submit their own photos and videos on a wide range of topics. The people who do this are often referred to as citizen journalists.

Examples of such sources include CNN iReport , and  reddit . For more details on the history and development of citizen journalism, including addressing some of the pros and cons, read Your Guide to Citizen Journalism .

News Feeds – You can get updates on specific topics or a list of major headlines, regularly sent to you so you don’t have to visit sites or hunt for new content on a topic. Look for links that contain headings such as these to sign up for news feeds:

• News Alerts
• Table of Contents Alerts

What’s an RSS feed? How can it help you stay informed about what you are interested in?

Answer to Activity: Choosing a Newspaper Database

If you look at the database descriptions, you will notice that the one for Alternative Press Index matches the need expressed in the question.

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10 News Writing Exercises for Journalism Students

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Looking for a way to hone your news writing skills ? Try these news writing exercises. Each provides a set of facts or a scenario, and it's up to you to produce a story from it. You'll have to fill in the blanks with imaginary but logical information that you compile. To get the maximum benefit, force yourself to do these on a tight deadline:

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You're on the night shift again at the Centerville Gazette. You phone the cops to see if anything's going on. Lt. Jane Ortlieb of the Centerville Police Department tells you there was a shooting tonight at the Fandango Bar & Grill on Wilson Street in the Grungeville section of the city.

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You're back at the Centerville Gazette on the day after the shooting outside the Fandango Bar & Grill on Wilson Street in the Grungeville section of town. You phone the cops to see if they have anything new on the case. Lt. Jane Ortlieb tells you that early this morning they arrested an ex-con named Frederick Johnson, 32, in connection with the shooting.

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It's the day after police arrested Frederick Johnson in connection with the shooting death of Peter Wickham outside the Fandango Bar & Grill. You call Lt. Jane Ortlieb of the Centerville Police Department. She tells you that cops are having a perp walk today to take Johnson to the Centerville District Courthouse for his arraignment. She says to be outside the courthouse at 10 a.m. sharp.

It's Tuesday morning at the Centerville Gazette. Making your usual phone checks, you get word from the fire department about a house fire early this morning. Deputy Fire Marshal Larry Johnson tells you the blaze was in a row house in the Cedar Glen section of the city.

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You’re covering a 7 p.m. meeting of the Centerville School Board. The meeting is being held in the auditorium of Centerville High School. The board begins with a discussion of ongoing cleanup at McKinley Elementary School, which experienced water damage during heavy rains and flooding  two weeks ago in the city’s Parksburg section, near the Root River.

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It’s 9:30 p.m. You're on the night shift at the Centerville Gazette. You hear some chatter on the police scanner and call the cops. Lt. Jack Feldman says he’s not sure what’s happening but he thinks a plane crashed near Centerville Airport, a small facility used mostly by private pilots flying single-engine craft. Your editor tells you to get over there as fast as you can.

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You're on the day shift at the Centerville Gazette. The city editor gives you some information on a teacher who has died and tells you to bang out an obit. Here's the information: Evelyn Jackson, a retired teacher, died yesterday at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home, where she had lived for the past five years. She was 79 and died of natural causes. Jackson had worked for 43 years as an English teacher at Centerville High School before retiring in her late 60s. She taught classes in composition, ​ American literature , and poetry.

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How to Write a News Article

Last Updated: June 5, 2024 Fact Checked

This article was co-authored by Gerald Posner . Gerald Posner is an Author & Journalist based in Miami, Florida. With over 35 years of experience, he specializes in investigative journalism, nonfiction books, and editorials. He holds a law degree from UC College of the Law, San Francisco, and a BA in Political Science from the University of California-Berkeley. He’s the author of thirteen books, including several New York Times bestsellers, the winner of the Florida Book Award for General Nonfiction, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. He was also shortlisted for the Best Business Book of 2020 by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. There are 11 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 2,445,366 times.

Writing a news article is different from writing other articles or informative pieces because news articles present information in a specific way. It's important to be able to convey all the relevant information in a limited word count and give the facts to your target audience concisely. Knowing how to write a news article can help a career in journalism , develop your writing skills and help you convey information clearly and concisely.

Things You Should Know

• Outline your article with all the facts and interview quotes you’ve gathered. Decide what your point of view on the topic is before you start writing.
• Your first sentence is the most important one—craft an attention-getter that clearly states the most important information.
• Proofread for accurate information, consistent style and tone, and proper formatting.

Sample Articles

Planning Your Article

• If you’ve ever written a research paper you understand the work that goes into learning about your topic. The first phase of writing a news article or editorial is pretty similar.
• Who - who was involved?
• What - what happened?
• Where - where did it happen?
• Why - why did it happen?
• When - when did it happen?
• How - how did it happen?

• 1) those that need to be included in the article.
• 2) those that are interesting but not vital.
• 3) those that are related but not important to the purpose of the article.
• This fact list will help prevent you from leaving out any relevant information about the topic or story, and will also help you write a clean, succinct article.
• Be as specific as possible when writing down all of these facts. You can always trim down unnecessary information later, but it’s easier to cut down than it is to have to beef up an article.
• It’s okay at this point to have holes in your information – if you don’t have a pertinent fact, write down the question and highlight it so you won’t forget to find it out
• Now that you have your facts, if your editor has not already assigned the type of article, decide what kind of article you’re writing. Ask yourself whether this is an opinion article, an unbiased and straightforward relaying of information, or something in between. [2] X Research source

• If you’ve ever heard the term “burying the lead”, that is in reference to the structure of your article. [4] X Research source The “lead” is the first sentence of the article – the one you “lead” with. Not "burying the lead" simply means that you should not make your readers read several paragraphs before they get to the point of your article.
• Whatever forum you’re writing for, be it print or for the web, a lot of readers don’t make it to the end of the article. When writing a news article, you should focus on giving your readers what they want as soon as possible.
• Write above the fold. The fold comes from newspapers where there’s a crease because the page gets folded in half. If you look at a newspaper all the top stories are placed above the fold. The same goes for writing online. The virtual fold is the bottom of your screen before you have to scroll down. Put the best information at the top to engage your readers and encourage them to keep reading.

• Ask yourself the “5 W's” again, but this time in relation to your audience.
• Questions like what is the average age you are writing for, where is this audience, local or national, why is this audience reading your article, and what does your audience want out of your article will inform you on how to write.
• Once you know who you are writing for you can format an outline that will get the best information to the right audience as quickly as possible.

• Even if you are covering a popular story or topic that others are writing about, look for an angle that will make this one yours.
• Do you have a personal experience that relates to your topic? Maybe you know someone who is an expert that you can interview .

• People usually like to talk about personal experiences, especially if it will be featured somewhere, like your news article. Reach out through a phone call, email, or even social media and ask someone if you can interview them.
• When you do interview people you need to follow a few rules: identify yourself as a reporter. Keep an open mind . Stay objective. While you are encouraged to ask questions and listen to anecdotes, you are not there to judge.
• Record and write down important information from the interview, and be transparent with what you are doing and why you are doing this interview.

Writing Your News Article

• Your lead should be one sentence and should simply, but completely, state the topic of the article.
• Remember when you had to write essays for school? Your lead is like your thesis statement.
• Let your readers know what your news article is about, why it’s important, and what the rest of the article will contain.

• These details are important, because they are the focal point of the article that fully informs the reader.
• If you are writing an opinion piece , this is where you will state what your opinion is as well.

• This additional information helps round out the article and can help you transition to new points as you move along.
• If you have an opinion, this is where you will identify the opposing views and the people who hold them.
• A good news article will outline facts and information. A great news article will allow readers to engage on an emotional level.
• To engage your readers, you should provide enough information that anyone reading your news article can make an informed opinion, even if it contrasts with yours.
• This also applies to a news article where you the author don’t state your opinion but present it as an unbiased piece of information. Your readers should still be able to learn enough about your topic to form an opinion.

• Make sure your news article is complete and finished by giving it a good concluding sentence. This is often a restatement of the leading statement (thesis) or a statement indicating potential future developments relating to the article topic.
• Read other news articles for ideas on how to best accomplish this. Or, watch news stations or shows. See how a news anchor will wrap up a story and sign off, then try to emulate that.

Proofing Your Article

• Be sure to double check all the facts in your news article before you submit it, including names, dates, and contact information or addresses. Writing accurately is one of the best ways to establish yourself as a competent news article writer.

• If your news article is meant to convey direct facts, not the opinions of its writer, ensure you’ve kept your writing unbiased and objective. Avoid any language that is overly positive or negative or statements that could be construed as support or criticism.
• If your article is meant to be more in the style of interpretive journalism then check to make sure that you have given deep enough explanations of the larger story and offered multiple viewpoints throughout.

• When quoting someone, write down exactly what was said inside quotations and immediately cite the reference with the person’s proper title. Formal titles should be capitalized and appear before a person’s name. Ex: “Mayor John Smith”.
• Always write out numbers one through nine, but use numerals for numbers 10 and up.
• When writing a news article, be sure to only include one space after a period, not two. [12] X Research source

• You shouldn’t submit any news article for publication without first letting someone take a look at it. An extra pair of eyes can double check your facts and the information to ensure that what you have written is accurate.
• If you are writing a news article for school or your own personal website, then have a friend take a look at it and give you notes. Sometimes you may get notes that you want to defend or don’t agree with it. But these should be listened to. Remember, with so many news articles getting published every minute you need to ensure that your widest possible audience can easily digest the information you have provided.

Expert Q&A

• Start with research and ask the “5. Asking these questions will help you create an outline and a narrative to your article. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
• Interview people, and remember to be polite and honest about what you are writing. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
• Put the most important information at the beginning of your article. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0

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What is a Newspaper Project?

A newspaper project template allows students in any subject to retell events from a story, history, or even science! They provide a fun structure for demonstrating comprehension and understanding, as well as help students reflect on events. These types of lessons can involve getting students to create their own newspaper or news article that explores a particular topic or subject. The activity can be done individually or within a group and can be adapted to different levels and subjects. This type of activity typically involves researching, writing, and editing news articles, as well as designing and formatting the newspaper layout. The main goal of a newspaper project for students is to improve students' writing and critical thinking skills, as well as their understanding of a particular topic or issue.

Why Are They Important and How Are They Best Used?

Newspaper school projects are the perfect way for students to flex their creativity and their own voice when summarizing or recounting events. This type of activity encourages research in a different outlet than writing a regular paper or another typical activity like a book report. Research studies have also found that newspaper projects can improve student learning outcomes. For example, a study by Azar and Oskouei (2015) found that a newspaper project-based approach to teaching English as a foreign language improves students' writing skills and their ability to retain vocabulary. Another study by Hall and Strangman (2002) found that newspaper projects helped students with disabilities develop literacy skills and critical thinking skills. Students making a newspaper for school projects can be designed and coordinated as fun as you want it to be, from having students create news features to having them do travel segments.

Suggested Newspaper Template Layout

It is relevant to note the different sections needed when creating editable newspaper templates.

• Title section of the newspaper
• Headline section with main picture
• Article 1 with story-relevant pictures
• Article 2 with story-relevant picture (optional)
• Remaining articles where relevant
• Fun Facts Section
• Games and puzzles section
• Classified ads section
• Credits section

Suggested Activity Progression

I. introduction.

Introduce the newspaper project for students and explain the objective of the activity.

II. Pre-Writing Activities

Brainstorming Session: Have students brainstorm topics they are interested in and would like to write about. This can range from the details of the individual articles themselves, or if they would like to create a specialized type of paper. For instance, do they want to create a fashion spread, a sports publication or something like a kids magazine?

Research: Provide students with different resource types to conduct research on their chosen topics. This is the perfect type of activity to incorporate the use of digital tools.

III. Writing Activities

Writing Workshop: Have students write their articles using the blank newspaper templates provided.

Peer Review: Encourage students to review and edit each other's work, focusing on grammar, spelling, and structure.

Suggested Newspaper Project Examples By Subject

These suggested activities can help students apply their knowledge and skills in different subject areas while also building their research, writing, and critical thinking abilities.

English Language Arts

• Students can create a mock newspaper article worksheet about a popular personality everyone wants to know more about. Writing a profile feature gives students an opportunity to develop their communication skills, description skills and creativity in expression.
• Students can create a newspaper article template about a character from a novel or play they have read, summarizing the character's story and traits.
• Students can create an article covering a recent event that happened, or one that is upcoming, its historical significance and other relevant details.

Social Studies

• Students can create a mock newspaper feature/article about a significant event in world history, such as the signing of the Magna Carta or the fall of the Berlin Wall.
• Students can create a newspaper about the daily life and culture of a particular region or country, researching topics such as food, art, music, and customs.
• Students can create newspaper articles about recent scientific or technological discoveries or breakthroughs.
• Students can create a newspaper about the environment, including articles on climate change, pollution, and endangered species.

Mathematics

• Students can create a newspaper article explaining a particular math-related concept, or using basic economics like grocery shopping and the price of goods to explain to readers how they are affected.
• Students can create a newspaper article template about the history of mathematics, highlighting important mathematicians and their contributions.
• Students can create a newspaper article assignment about a particular art movement or artist, exploring topics such as the style, themes, and techniques of the movement or artist.
• When students are assigned to create a newspaper for school projects, they can create articles about art events or exhibitions happening in their local area, including reviews of the shows and interviews with artists.

Instructions for Students on How To Make A Newspaper For A School Project

What to Include in a newspaper article template:

• Headline: The main purpose of the headline is to grab the reader's attention. It should be short and not include too many details, but just enough to encourage the reader to read the entire article.
• Byline: This is the section that gives credit to the author of the article.
• Location: Typical journalistic articles include the location close to the byline section and the location included is usually the press office from which the article is produced.
• Lead Paragraph: This is the initial paragraph that usually includes what journalists would call a ‘lede’ which is the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘why’, ‘where’, and ‘how’ of the main story.
• Supporting Paragraph: These paragraphs elaborate on the rest of the details surrounding the story.

Additional Newspaper Insights

Creating a newspaper in class can get students excited but you can also incorporate lessons on the relevance and use of real newspapers so that students are not only developing their creative writing and design skills but are also able to analyze the content they consume from typical newspapers. Understanding how things work will help them to come up with their own newspaper idea for school projects.

Here are some additional tips to include for students:

• Newspapers are obligated to ensure that the content they produce is of a particular quality. Not only that but they are also required to ensure the information they produce is the most accurate in terms of the recollection of events or in terms of available historical and verifiable data.
• Based on the nature of reporting, fact-checking is important.
• The design of a newspaper is based on their usual style-guide. Each publication usually has its own style guide which provides a reference for details such as colors, fonts, print size, and layout and formatting. It also includes stylistic details such as grammar preferences and standards and approved referencing formats that can be used.
• When working on your own newspaper project template ideas, it's important to consider the competition. Using typical newspapers as a reference, in any locality, if there are more than one publications then all journalists might end up reporting on the same subject. With this in mind, it's important to ensure that all perspectives and opportunities for creativity and differentiation are taken. Otherwise, there would be no incentive for your publication being preferred.
• For classroom activities, the latitude for creativity is a lot more extensive. For instance, the opportunity not only exists to create a typical news-reporting print publication but also more niche and hobby related content. Students can be given the opportunity to explore their passions. For instance, those interested in fashion can create their own publication in the style of a real-life publication like Vogue, or those interested in sports can create something in the spirit of a publication like Sports Illustrated and the opportunities for such activities are endless in this setting.
• Additionally students can be given even more creative opportunities, since it is within the context of a classroom, meaning they can include even more specific sections related to their hobbies like the funnies, games and puzzles.

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• The school community’s world connections

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Frequently Asked Questions About Newspaper Projects

What skills can students develop through newspaper school projects.

Newspaper article worksheets for students can help them develop skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, and research.

How can newspaper project examples be used to teach current events?

Newspaper school projects can be used to teach current events by having students research and write about news stories that are relevant to the class or subject area.

How can teachers differentiate newspaper projects for different grade levels and abilities?

Teachers can differentiate a newspaper making activity by providing different levels of scaffolding, such as graphic organizers or sentence frames, and by adjusting the complexity of the research and writing tasks.

Can newspaper projects be used in subjects other than English/Language Arts?

Yes, newspaper projects can be used in subjects such as Social Studies, Science, and even Math. For example, students can research and write articles about historical events or scientific discoveries.

What are some ways to incorporate technology into newspaper projects?

Students can use online resources to research news articles and multimedia elements such as images and videos can be included in the final product.

How can newspaper projects be assessed?

Newspaper projects can be assessed through different grading rubrics that evaluate the accuracy of the content, the quality of the writing, and the overall organization and presentation of the final product.

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Creating a Classroom Newspaper

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Students will enjoy this creative, exciting, and stimulating lesson in writing as they create authentic newspaper stories. As they are transformed into reporters and editors, they will become effective users of ICT in order to publish their own classroom newspaper. Various aspects of newspapers are covered, including parts of a newspaper, writing an article, online newspapers, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.

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• Printing Press : In this online interactive tool, your students can choose the "newspaper" option to help them complete their newspaper section.
• Newspaper Story Format : Your students will find completing their newspaper article a snap by first filling out this useful handout that helps them identify each key element of an authentic newspaper article.

From Theory to Practice

• Encouraging children to read and write in ways that allow them to make sense of real language in real contexts is more likely to help them develop the skills necessary to become fluent readers and writers. Creation of a class newspaper provides such a real context, and thus makes an excellent choice as the basis for a project designed with this goal in mind.
• Use of the computer motivates students to learn and students' attitudes toward the newspaper genre are affected by active participation in the production of an authentic and original newspaper of their own.
• Abilities in formal writing are best developed with a "process approach" that goes through five distinct phases: prewriting, composing or drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Using this approach helps students more fully understand the process of producing formal written documents, such as magazines and newspapers.

Common Core Standards

This resource has been aligned to the Common Core State Standards for states in which they have been adopted. If a state does not appear in the drop-down, CCSS alignments are forthcoming.

State Standards

This lesson has been aligned to standards in the following states. If a state does not appear in the drop-down, standard alignments are not currently available for that state.

NCTE/IRA National Standards for the English Language Arts

• 4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
• 5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
• 6. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.
• 8. Students use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
• 11. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.

Materials and Technology

• Computer lab with Internet access
• Multimedia software
• Access to a library of images/graphics
• Scanner (optional)
• Digital camera (optional)
• Deadline! From News to Newspaper by Gail Gibbons (HarperCollins, 1987)
• The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper by Loreen Leedy (Holiday House, 1993)
• Freddy and the Bean Home News by Walter R. Brooks (Puffin, 2002)
• Inverted Pyramid Format
• Newspaper Story Format
• Story Feedback Form
• Newspaper Writing Assessment
• Reporting Tips
• Reporter's Guide

Preparation

*Prerequisite skills: Familiarization with an appropriate multimedia software program

Student Objectives

Students will

• Identify the parts of a newspaper
• Identify the format of a news article
• Write a newspaper story
• Edit newspaper articles
• Use ICT equipment and software
• Layout and publish a classroom newspaper

Hold up a sample front page from a selected newspaper. Ask students what they notice about the format that is different from other texts they read (e.g., black and white ink, graphics, headline, column format). Divide the students into groups of three to four members. Explain to the students that they will explore a newspaper, paying attention to the layout and format. Instruct students to study the front page first and discuss what different parts they notice. Ask each group to report back to the whole class what members noticed was contained on the front page. Make a list of parts on the board. (e.g., title, headlines, pictures or graphics, captions, date, subtitles, table of contents/index, etc.). Students should notice similarities between different newspapers. Discuss with the class how newspapers use a standard format. In their groups, have students continue to explore copies of newspapers. What kinds of things do they notice? Students should begin to identify sections and features that are specific to newspapers. Have the groups again report to the whole class what types of items they noticed in their paper. Continue keeping the list of items on the board. (Additional items may include: editorials, cartoons, horoscope, local news, weddings, classifieds, advertising, etc.) Explain to the class that people read newspapers differently than other types of texts. Discuss how people read newspapers. Reading a newspaper matches people's interests in certain things. They scan headlines, subtitles, and images to see if the story interests them or not. Read some sample headlines from newspapers. Ask, "How many of you would be interested in reading this story?" For homework, have students ask their family members what newspapers they read regularly and what sections they read most often. Give an example of your own newspaper reading habits. (For example, "First I check the weather to help me decide what to wear to school. Then I go to the local news to see what is happening in my town. Finally, I scan the headlines to see what is happening in the world. If I have time, I start the crossword puzzle.")

Ask the students to report about their family's newspaper reading habits. Make a list of newspapers that are read and determine which are the most common. List the words who, what, where, when, and why on the board, overhead, or chart paper. Answer each of the five W questions using the popular rhyme "Jack & Jill." Example:

• Who? Jack and Jill
• What? Fell down and broke crown
• Where? On the hill
• When? Sometime in the past
• Why? Trying to fetch water

Read "Bad Fall Injures Children" article from page 4 of the Grandview Newspaper lesson plan . Students clarify their previous responses to the five W s according to the article. Explain how these five questions help to summarize a news story. Put students in groups of three to four members. Ask the students to choose another famous rhyme or fairy tale and answer the five W questions. Have each group read just the answers to their questions, and then have the class try to guess what fairy tale or rhyme it is. Explain that these five W s help with the organization of a news story and that they make up the most important details of the story. Demonstrate to the class the organization of a good news story using the Inverted Pyramid Format overhead. Use a sample newspaper story to illustrate an example of this format For homework, ask students to select a newspaper article that they are interested in reading and bring it to school the next day.

Give students time to read the newspaper article they brought from home. Hand out the Newspaper Story Format sheet. Students should then complete the sheet using details from their particular article and share the summary of their newspaper article. Ask the students to rewrite the newspaper article in their own words as if they were a reporter for their local newspaper. What changes would they make and why? Have the students share their stories with a classmate using the following questions to guide their discussion:

• Were changes made to the lead? Why?
• Were changes made to the five W s? Why?
• Were changes made to the details? Why?

As a class, discuss fact versus opinion. Explain that news articles do not include the reporter's opinion. Have students go back and see if the changes that were made to their articles were strictly factual. Refer to original articles as needed for examples of fact-based stories.

Read-aloud to the class from one or more of the suggested titles:

• Deadline! From News to Newspaper by Gail Gibbons
• The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper by Loreen Leedy
• Freddy and the Bean Home News by Walter R. Brooks

Have students brainstorm the types of articles they would like to write and list them on the board. Look at the list and ask students if the articles could be grouped into categories or "newspaper sections." Use the Reporting Tips overhead to present how to make newspaper articles more interesting. Go over each point and clarify any questions that students may raise. Group students based on interests to form an "editorial staff" for each newspaper section. Have the groups meet to decide who will write which stories. Students can use the Reporter's Guide handout as a guideline. When they have finished, students can begin collecting facts for their stories.

Session 5 and 6

Take students to the computer lab and have them write their first draft. They should not worry about font, size, or columns at this point. Be sure that they save their work and print a hard copy of their article for editing. Students' stories should then be self-edited and edited by two other members of their editorial staff (using the Story Feedback Form ). Students should make necessary revisions to their stories based on the comments from the Story Feedback Form.

In the computer lab, have students access the Internet Public Library website and explore newspapers from around the world. They should pay particular attention to the design and layout elements. For example, some articles may include graphics (e.g., photos, charts, graphs). Discuss what patterns of layout design the students noticed. As a whole class, discuss newspaper layout, addressing the following points:

• Headline News: Top priority articles are near the front (1-2 pages). These are typically of high interest to your entire audience of readers (e.g., town news such as a new park or community center). Long front-page articles can be continued on an inside page to provide room for other headline news.
• Feature Articles: Stories about topics or events that are of interest to a certain group of readers (e.g., sports, animal stories, academic topics, interviews with school staff, book reviews). These are typically grouped into sections.
• Pictures or graphics: The image should always appear with the story. A caption can be included. The size usually depends on how much space is available in the layout.

Give students the opportunity to explore these layout items in newspapers in the classroom and online. Students should look at the Junior Seahawk Newsletter to get ideas for their own layout.

Session 8 and 9

In the computer lab, students should complete final story revisions. They may then begin the newspaper layout using appropriate software. The ReadWriteThink Printing Press includes an option for creating a newspaper. Each editorial staff works together to complete their newspaper section. Note: 8 ½ X 11 size pages are optimal. They can be printed and copied back to back on 11 X 17 paper that can be folded like a real newspaper. The completed paper must have an even number of pages for this format. Pictures can be drawn or pasted into the layout. Depending on the available resources, pictures can also be scanned or downloaded from a digital camera. Tell students to play around with fonts and columns. They should experiment and be creative! Once pages are completed, they should be printed. The editorial staff should do a final reading for errors. Pages are then submitted to the teacher for publishing.

Distribute the class newspaper to the students and allow them time to read it. When they have finished, hand out the Newspaper Writing Assessment sheet and ask them to fill it out.

Student Assessment / Reflections

Assess students' comments from the Newspaper Writing Assessment sheet.

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Guardians Designate Scott Barlow For Assignment

By Nick Deeds | September 8, 2024 at 1:25pm CDT

The Guardians have designated right-hander Scott Barlow for assignment, according to MLB.com’s Transactions Tracker . Taking his spot on the 40-man and active rosters will be left-hander Anthony Gose , whose contract was selected according to Gose’s MLB.com Player Page .

Barlow, 31, was acquired by the Guardians in a trade with the Padres last November that sent right-hander Enyel De Los Santos to San Diego. A longtime Royals relief arm who emerged as the club’s top leverage arm during the 2021 season, Barlow pitched to an excellent 2.30 ERA and 3.13 FIP in 148 2/3 innings between 2021 and ’22 while striking out 28.2% of batters faced and racking up 40 saves.

Unfortunately, he took a step back in 2023 with a somewhat uneven season. While his numbers under the hood during his time with the Royals last year, including a 26.7% strikeout rate and a 4.04 SIERA, offered plenty of reason for optimism, he struggled in terms of preventing runs and ultimately surrendered a 5.35 ERA in 38 2/3 innings of work before being shipped to the Padres at the trade deadline. Once in uniform with San Diego, Barlow pitched much better down the stretch with a 3.07 ERA and 3.15 FIP in his final 29 1/3 innings last year. That seemed to leave Barlow poised to occupy a key role with the Padres in the late innings this year, but he was ultimately shipped to the Guardians as part of an effort to slash the club’s payroll and duck under the luxury tax for 2024.

That allowed the Guardians step in and take the opportunity to add Barlow to their already excellent bullpen, where he was poised to act as one of the top setup men for closer Emmanuel Clase . For much of the season, the right-hander performed that role admirably with a 3.12 ERA and 3.50 FIP in 43 1/3 innings of work through the end of July. Things took a sharp turn for the worse once the calendar flipped to August, however, and Barlow was shelled to the tune of an 8.49 ERA in 11 2/3 innings of work. The right-hander has seemed lost on the mound for over a month now, with a 17.9% strikeout rate against a 10.7% walk rate to go along with three hit batters and two home runs over his last 13 appearances. As the Guardians look to fend off the Royals and Twins in the AL Central and earn a bye through the Wild Card Series this October, the club evidently felt they couldn’t afford to continue giving the righty opportunities to get right.

Barlow’s departure makes way for Gose, 34, on the big league roster. Once a top-100 prospect as a hitter with the Phillies, he struggled through five seasons in the majors with a below average .240/.309/.348 slash line in 372 career games and eventually decided to try converting to pitching. He resurfaced in the big leagues as a reliever in Cleveland back in 2021, impressing with a six-appearance cup of coffee that saw him strike out 37.5% of opponents and post a 1.35 ERA. Gose sported a respectable 3.90 ERA and 4.17 FIP in 27 2/3 innings of work as pitcher for his career when he underwent Tommy John surgery in September of 2022, and he spent the entire 2023 season rehabbing.

Now back in action with the Guardians, Gose surrendered three runs in 3 1/3 innings of work during a brief cup of coffee earlier this year but has posted a solid 3.27 ERA in 41 1/3 frames at the Triple-A level. He’ll get another opportunity with the big league club down the stretch as he looks to establish himself as a viable relief option for the 2025 campaign, whether that’s with Cleveland or elsewhere.

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Why is Cleveland obsessed with putting gose in call up DFA purgatory???

Kinda shocking. Barlow has been trending in the wrong direction, but I don’t really see Gose on the playoff roster either.

The guardians have better relief pitchers at columbus. Andrew Walter and nick Enright will be up next year. Watch for Jim Karincheck to be traded this winter or dfa.

Absolutely they do. Just seems like a weird time to give up on Barlow. Playoff bullpen will be pretty settled with Smith, Caddis and Clase and any combo of Sandlin and Herrin when needed.

How long until they DFA Gose again? Three, two, one…

Probably after he makes an appearance tonight

Or til they realize he isn’t a very good pitcher. He just a guy who throws really hard.

Baron still calls them the Indians

That’s terrific. Nobody cares.

Stalk elsewhere

I’m surprised they waited this long to get rid of Barlow.

Barlow has basically been a poor man’s Craig Kimbrel. Every time he takes the ball he’s like a drunken baby on a tightrope, and Vogt probably had a big say in this move. Needed to get rid of him before Vogt developed a heart condition from watching his high wire act.

It seemed every time I watched Barlow pitch the past few months he got creamed.

I turn on the Dodgers-Guardians game and Gose is starting the inning. A batter later Muncy hits a HR, and as usual the crowd noise MLB teams now pipe in sounds like 60,000 fans are going crazy. So I look the crowd and see a few applauding, Then again, it’s been a long time since I saw Dodger Stadium that empty. Doubt there were 8,000 in the stands. I know there’s a heat wave, but was there another disaster? Were the fans home watching the NFL?

The piped in crowd noise is just so phony. MLB is all about marketing and is making monstrous amounts of money, so it’s understandable. But very few people – especially young adults I run into – seem to know or care much about MLB.

Hoping to see the Savannah Bananas next year. They held a lottery to buy tickets in my area recently, but alas I didn’t win.

They must just want another lefty for now because it would have made more sense to promote Walters, or they just don’t want to add to their 40-man crunch before they need to since this is only his second pro season.

Walters would seemingly have a better chance of making a playoff roster than Gose would.

Wouldn’t Walters have to replace someone on the IL since he wasn’t on the active roster before Sep 1st?

They have several guys on the 60 day IL like Bieber they could use to accommodate that

Guardians haven’t quite given up the Gose…

Carlos carassco ready to come of IL? The lefty sabrowski probably stays. Gose is a placeholder.

Haven’t heard any updates on Carrasco, but I have to give the guy credit for pitching as much and as relatively effectively this year when nobody expected him to do anything more than a few token appearances for his farewell tour.

So Gose will be DFA by Tuesday

Interesting timing. I wonder if this means they like what they have seen out of Sabrowski and maybe he has a chance to stick around for the rest of the year..

I think you’re right.

How is Gose an upgrade over Barlow?

Thank God. Barlow should have been gone weeks ago. He’s a one-pitch wonder with control problems. Now, let’s work on Eli Morgan. Can’t trust him in a meaningful situation, either. .

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Dynamics of News Reporting and Writing: Foundational Skills for a New Age

Student resources, news writing assignments.

Assignment 1:  What grabs you?

Description of Assignment: Basic news writing focuses on figuring out what is important and then giving that information to your readers. It sounds simple, and with a lot of practice, it can be. Problems tend to crop up when writers try to do too much, ignore some basic tenets of journalism and generally don’t think about the audience before writing.

Here's your chance to rate your local newspaper or online news site. Find today’s edition, set aside 40 min, and read it. Just read. Then, make a list of stories, then rank them from the story that interests you the most to that which interests you the least.

Consider what it is about each story that caught your fancy. Was it the writing style? Was it the subject matter? Did the story tell you something you didn’t know? Did it answer your questions?

And consider each story that you didn’t like. Was it poorly written or organized? Did it contain errors? Was it useless to you? Did it leave you with more questions than when you started reading it? Could you even get through it?

Be prepared to discuss these findings in class. Understanding what you value in a story will make it easier for you to write and report your own stories.

Public Domain Source Material: Your daily newspaper.

Assignment 2: What happened at work today?

Description of Assignment: The core of any good news story is the lead, which is where you try to give people as much of the most important information as possible. A good place to start is the 5W’s and 1H: who, what, when, where, why and how.

Now apply this to any variation of the age-old question asked in every household: How was your day? What happened at work today? What did you study at school today?

Think about starting with a core, and then add layer after layer of information as you move outward. Answer each of the 5W’s and 1H. Then start with a simple “noun-verb-object” structure that answers the question “Who did what to whom/what?”

Here’s an example: The owner and head chef of the restaurant where you work part-time as a server learned today that he was nominated for a national award. Even though it did not involve you directly, it was still one of the most exciting days you have experienced on the job, and you want to share it. So, break it down:

Who: The owner and head chef of Dante’s Café, Dante Gardot

What: Nominated for the prestigious “Outstanding Chef” award by the James Beard Foundation

When: About 3:05 p.m. today

Where: In the kitchen at Dante’s Café, in downtown Hallsville.

Why: For setting high culinary standards and serving as a positive example for other food professionals.

How: He learned by a text message from his wife that he was nominated when the list was published online at 3 p.m.

What are the most important elements of the 5W’s and 1H? In this case, it’s the “who” and the “what,” followed by the “where” and “why.”

Now, write it out: Dante Gardot, head chef at Dante’s Café, was nominated today for the prestigious “Outstanding Chef” award from the James Beard Foundation for setting high culinary standards and serving as a positive example for other food professionals.

Try it out with something that happened during your workday.

Assignment 3: Spoiler alert! Learning the inverted pyramid.

Description of Assignment: This drill will ask students to think of their three favorite movies or novels, and report them as news stories using summary leads and an inverted pyramid style. Please write at least four paragraphs per film or book. Don’t worry about giving away the ending! News stories generally require the writer to give up the goods at the start of the story. That way, the reader doesn’t get bored and miss the point of the story before moving on to the next one.

For example, here is a news story of Charlotte’s Web , by E.B. White:

Charlotte A. Cavatica, a barn spider who helped save Wilbur the pig from slaughter by extolling him with English words spun into her web at Zuckerman’s farm, died Friday at the county fair. She was 1.

Charlotte is survived by Wilbur, who rose to regional fame thanks to his dear friend’s cunning, and dozens of babies who emerged from her egg sac thereafter and departed before Wilbur could name them. The spiderlings who stayed with Wilbur were named Joy, Nellie, and Aranea.

Assignment 4: Birthday assignment

Description of Assignment: You may not remember it, but the day of your birth was very special for your parents. Interview your mother or father (or both) and ask them to recall what they experienced on the day you came into the world. At what time did your mother go into labor? Was it a natural birth, or did she have a C-section?

Shape their answers into the 5Ws and 1H format, and write a story reporting the events of your own birthday, using the inverted pyramid structure, as if it had been published in a family newsletter the day after your birth.

Assignment 5: Take note

Description of Assignment: Note-taking is an essential skill in reporting. There is no such thing (yet) as real-time transcription of every conversation. Even if there were, it would only be a record of what was said. It would not tell you anything about the way it was said. It would not remind you of the insights you had during the conversation.

Your notes represent your understanding of the material you are covering. Yes, it is important to get some colorful quotes, but it’s also important to make a record of the surroundings, what you see, feel, hear, and understand.

Every writer must develop their own note-taking style. Try writing as concisely--and as fast--as you can while still capturing the information you will understand later. Take time after an interview or event to review your notes and improve them while the memories are fresh in your mind.

Your assignment: Watch tonight’s evening news and take notes. Watch the first 15 min of the broadcast, just once through, without pausing.

Then recreate the broadcast from your notes--with direct quotes, nuance, and your own writing style. Describe the clips in as vivid detail as you can muster. Remember to get accurate spellings of names.

Public Domain Source Material: Watch live on TV or choose a past newscast:

If you are watching from 8 to 11 p.m. EDT, check out the new national broadcast on WGN America: NewsNation, which promises opinion-free reporting.

NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/news-nation-live/

NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/nightly-news-full-broadcast-september-4th-91163205732

CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/090420-cbs-evening-news/

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Red Sox designate 44-year-old pitcher Rich Hill for assignment

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora (13) takes the ball from pitcher Rich Hill against the Detroit Tigers in the fifth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Boston Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill throws against the Detroit Tigers in the fifth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Boston Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill steps off the mound after pitching in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston Red Sox’s Rich Hill delivers a pitch to a Toronto Blue Jays batter in the seventh inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill (44) reacts after walking in a run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

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BOSTON (AP) — Rich Hill, the only player to appear in a major league game in each of the last 20 seasons, was designated for assignment by the Boston Red Sox on Friday.

The 44-year-old left-hander four outs for Boston on Aug. 29 in a 2-0 loss to Toronto in his first appearance of the season. He pitched in four games for the Red Sox, allowing two runs in 3 2/3 innings.

Hill has a 4.01 ERA in 386 MLB games in a career that started in 2002, when he was selected in the fourth round of the first year player draft by the Chicago Cubs.

Boston recalled 24-year-old right-handed pitcher Luis Guerrero to take Hill’s roster spot.

“Tough one,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said of the club’s decision on Hill. “He’s going to be a Red Sox for life, but I think it’s smart for us to start getting guys here who can contribute for the future.”

In his career, Hill pitched for 13 teams, posting a 90-74 record with 1,428 strikeouts over 1,409 innings.

Hill and the late Tim Wakefield are the only pitchers to appear in a game for the Red Sox at 44 or older. Wakefield was 45.

Born in Boston, Hill made his big-league debut with the Cubs in 2005.

Hill appropriately wore No. 44 in his latest stint with the Red Sox, the fourth of his career. They signed him to a minor league deal on Aug. 16.

He also pitched for Pittsburgh, San Diego, Baltimore, Cleveland, Oakland, Tampa Bay, the Angels, Yankees, Dodgers, Twins and Mets.

He’s one short of Edwin Jackson’s record of playing for the most MLB clubs.

Boston enters Friday night’s game against the Chicago White Sox with a five-game losing streak and is 5 1/2 games behind the race for the third, and final, wild-card spot in the American League. The Red Sox are also a half game behind Detroit and Seattle, which both trail Kansas City by 5 games for the AL’s last playoff spot.

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Lesson plan: Decoding media bias

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• News organizations have great power—deciding which topics are important enough to cover and where to position those topics within their newspaper, TV program, or website. People can also exercise power through the news stories they choose to engage with. Have students go to Newsmap and examine the trending news stories. The larger the news story box, the more people are reading about the story. You can also choose specific topics by selecting the topic check boxes on the bottom. Discuss what this says about the informed status of the electorate.
• Another option is to have students go to All Sides to introduce them to news topics written in three distinct viewpoints: left, center, right. Discuss this as a tool to recognize bias. The site also serves as a resource that people can go to read something that may challenge their assumptions, and with which they may disagree, as suggested in the We The Voters film “MediOcracy . ”

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After being designated for assignment on Monday, minor league slugger Jason Vosler is back with the Seattle Mariners organization. He cleared waivers and has been re-assigned to Triple-A Tacoma.

Roster Move: INF Jason Vosler cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Tacoma. — Mariners PR (@MarinersPR) September 11, 2024

That's not really surprising considering how late in the year it is. If Vosler had gone to free agency, he may have had a hard time finding a new job with just three weeks left in the regular season. This way, he gets to continue to collect a paycheck while also staying comfortable in a place he's had success this year.

The 31-year-old Vosler has had a great year in Triple-A, hitting .299 in 111 games for the Rainiers. He's got 28 home runs and 98 RBI as well, all while posting a .368 on-base percentage.

He did get a brief call-up with the Mariners, hitting .179 with three RBI in 10 games. He's spent parts of four years in the big leagues with the San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Mariners. He's a .207 hitter in 261 at-bats.

Vosler will become a free agent again at the end of the year and given his productivity this season, it would be understandable if he wants to leave the M's organization for a chance at steady major league work.

We have no idea how the roster will shake out in Seattle, but as of this point, that doesn't seem likely to happen with the M's.

The Mariners will take on the San Diego Padres again on Wednesday at 6:40 p.m. PT. Bryan Woo pitches against Michael King.

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The other big winners of the Trump-Harris debate? ABC’s fact-checking moderators

Moderating a presidential debate can be a thankless job, especially in the current overheated political environment. The tightrope walk of modern journalism means never pleasing everyone, and the constant peril of being accused of putting a thumb on the scales. So we have to give credit to ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis, who for the most part were able to deftly navigate that fine line during Tuesday’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Particularly notable was the duo’s real-time fact-checking of Trump, who has earned his reputation for a casual relationship with the truth.

Particularly notable was the duo’s real-time fact-checking of Trump, who has earned his reputation for a casual relationship with the truth.

While not intrusive, the pair provided a more aggressive check on the former president’s more outlandish falsehoods than CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash , who faced a similar assignment when Trump faced off against President Joe Biden during their objectively unpleasant debate earlier in June.

In that debate’s aftermath, CNN defended its anchors, who appeared to make a conscious effort not to intervene. The network’s political director, David Challian, told The New York Times that the debate was “not the ideal arena for live fact-checking.”

Critics pounced on this passivity in the face of Trump’s lies, with media observer and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis labeling their performance “dreadful,” adding, “They might as well have had ["Wheel of Fortune" co-host] Vanna White pointing to the next question and the next.”

But two months later, the dynamic has shifted — in more ways than one. The hours of pregame coverage ahead of Harris and Trump’s first high-stakes meeting inevitably resembled a sporting event, which provides a useful point of reference: In the Super Bowl or some other big game, referees often say they want to “let the players play,” and thus not open themselves to accusations of determining the outcome. Still, when someone steps over the line, they have to make a call, or throw a flag, and let the chips fall where they may.

Muir and Davis seemed to recognize that assignment, letting Trump go on for long stretches but periodically providing a check at the end of his monologues. Davis noted that no state allows the “executing” of newly born infants. And Muir challenged Trump’s assertion that he was being sarcastic when he appeared to (finally) acknowledge having lost the 2020 election. “I didn’t detect the sarcasm,” Muir calmly responded, noting he had himself watched the video clip.

“ABC did a very fine job,” MSNBC’s own Nicolle Wallace said during her post-debate analysis, while adding that moderators can sometimes be “reluctant to put themselves in a story.”

It’s not particularly hard to see where that reluctance comes from. Before the debate had even ended, criticism of the moderators started bubbling up from the conservative media ecosystem. (This debate-driven criticism likely won’t stop at ABC News, but will surely extend to its parent company, Disney, even if threats to boycott its parks and movies tend to be toothless and seldom materialize.)

Personalities like Megyn Kelly howled into the void known as X, at one point calling the fact-checking “the worst anchor pile-on” she had ever seen.

The irony, of course, is that Kelly’s journalism career arguably peaked when she herself dared to fact-check Trump during a Fox News debate in 2015 — prompting the candidate to assert the next day that she had “blood coming out of her eyes.”

Notably, presidential debates historically didn’t focus much on moderators, with the late Jim Lehrer, the PBS anchor who moderated a dozen of them, known for his calm and evenhandedness. Providing counsel to future moderators, Lehrer told Politico in 2016 , “Number one piece of advice is to stand in front of a mirror and say over and over again this is not about me, this is not about me.”

Trump, and his fondness for mendacity, have made that advice particularly difficult for journalists to follow. Granted, the initial praise heaped on Muir and Davis largely came from more progressive quadrants and might reflect a bit of grading on a curve after CNN’s perceived shortcomings. And Muir and Davis will inevitably face a backlash for daring to rein Trump in at all. But any fair-minded appraisal would conclude they found the proper balance: With apologies to Vanna White, demonstrating there’s more to moderating than just flashing a beguiling smile while flipping over consonants and vowels.

Brian Lowry is a media columnist and critic, most recently at CNN, and before that Variety and the Los Angeles Times.

From Lenin to Putin: Russia’s turbulent history as told by the foreign press

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What a contrast it was. In early May 2000, Vladimir Putin strode through the Kremlin’s gilded corridors, his progress relayed on live TV across the world’s largest country, and beyond. I was reporting from Moscow for the BBC. Putin looked purposeful, slim and sober as he swore to uphold the constitution of the Russian Federation.

During the 1990s, the international press corps in Moscow had become used to the president of Russia as an unpredictable character: impulsive, sometimes even drunk in public. But Boris Yeltsin resigned suddenly on the last day of 1999. As the constitution required, his acting successor – Vladimir Putin, a prime minister who had built his reputation by taking the fight to separatists in Chechnya – had to stand for election to be confirmed in his post. He was duly elected.

Two decades later, Putin’s critics argue that he has upended that constitution – introducing changes, by means of a recent national vote, that mean he could stay in power until he is 83.

None of the correspondents in Moscow in May 2000 stopped to think that Putin might be in power so long. He probably did not foresee it himself. At the time, his arrival appeared to be a necessary corrective to the chaos that had gone before.

We correspondents had certainly seen plenty of that: for the few winners of Russia’s new bandit capitalism, there had been unimaginable wealth; for many more, uncertainty and unpaid wages. From the years of political and economic chaos that had followed the collapse of communism, another kind of leader now emerged – one who was very much a product of the Soviet system in which he had grown up.

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Because relatively few westerners or other foreigners have visited Russia, those correspondents who have ventured there have had a disproportionate influence on forming outside opinion of the country. At various times, Russia has welcomed them, expelled them – or banned them altogether.

Theirs is the story I tell in my new book , Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia From Lenin to Putin. In short, Russia’s treatment of international correspondents tells the story of its relations with the rest of the world.

‘Golden age of openness’

I first visited the Soviet Union as a language student in 1987. Four years later, I returned as a TV news producer. It was my first foreign assignment. It was also the year when the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Major change had been underway for some years. That era of reform – started in the 1980s by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev – was also a golden age for international correspondents.

Fred Weir – whom I interviewed for the book – first went to Moscow in 1986 as correspondent for a Communist newspaper, the Canadian Tribune. He has reported for many other English-language publications since, and still does. He remembers that “a window on the country”, opened for foreign journalists as the Gorbachev era got underway. Travel restrictions remained, but were eased. Yet while it was not clear which direction the Soviet Union would take, few foresaw such a complete and sudden collapse of the system.

The brightest correspondents who have covered Russia have always tried to understand the country, its language, history and culture. Their insight has often enabled them to guess what was coming.

Journalism is designed to capture the sense of a moment, of a day. The greater understanding and interpretation is left for historians, who often benefit from a wider range of sources, and the power of hindsight. Yet the work of the best reporters from Russia – even as far back as the revolutions of 1917 – is still worth reading today.

Fellow travellers

For weeks after Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik followers seized power in November 1917, conservative newspapers gleefully predicted their downfall. Arthur Ransome – better known today as an author of children’s books, including the childhood idyll Swallows and Amazons – and Morgan Philips Price of the Manchester Guardian both stand out as two who correctly predicted that the Bolshevik regime would endure.

They were curious, both spoke good Russian, and had extensive contacts in political circles. Reporters could speak to revolutionaries, workers and peasants. Diplomats did not have the same freedoms, so they were slower to appreciate that the Tsar’s dynasty was doomed.

Philips Price and Ransome were not unbiased observers. Nor was John Reed, the charismatic young author of Ten Days that Shook the World , which was about the revolution. He admitted as much when he wrote: “My sympathies in the struggle were not neutral.”

Correspondence in the Guardian’s archives shows the length to which the paper later went to distance itself from Philips Price. A pamphlet which he wrote was deemed so inspiring by the Bolsheviks that they used it as propaganda to dissuade British troops who had entered Russia to reverse the revolution. As for Ransome, he clearly admired Lenin, and later married Leon Trotsky’s secretary.

Correspondents who were so impressed by Lenin found their counterparts in later admirers of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev. In the 1930s, the king of Moscow correspondents was Walter Duranty of the New York Times. His 1990s biographer, SJ Taylor, declared him Stalin’s apologist .

The recent film Mr Jones remembers Duranty’s refusal to report the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s. His playing down of the mass starvation kept him in favour with Stalin’s regime, and he later took credit for the US’s diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union.

Another pioneering correspondent could not believe what seemed to be astonishing luck as she crossed into Russia at its border with Poland without the right papers and was still able to make her way to Moscow. Marguerite Harrison, hailed by the New York Times as a “brilliant news writer”, called her 1936 autobiography Born For Trouble .

One trouble in her case was that she was not just a great reporter. She was also an American spy. In her defence, Harrison’s gender had prevented her from getting the journalistic assignment, so she agreed to work for US military intelligence too. She ended up in a Moscow prison cell, but her luck held out long enough for her to get an interview with Trotsky. Her excellent access was later explained by the fact that the Soviets knew what she was up to, and wanted to keep an eye on her.

Hostile actors

The sense of press freedom – the “window on the country” that Weir remembers – endured through the first chaotic decade of post-Soviet Russia. It no longer does. Western correspondents “are seen more as hostile actors”, Matthew Chance, who has reported from Russia for CNN since the late 1990s, told me. In an age when Russia’s relations with the west – especially the UK – are worse than at any time since the cold war, correspondents face great challenges. Access “is negligible”, Chance argues.

Journalism itself is in crisis: criticised not only by leaders in countries where the media has rarely been free, but also ignored and chastised by governments in the west. Russia’s media policy in recent years shows a shift towards wanting to tell its own story, through RT and its other international media platforms, rather than engaging with western media. Still, recent verbal assaults and veiled threats to the Financial Times and New York Times over their reporting of coronavirus statistics shows that international coverage can still sting.

The brightest correspondents who have covered Russia have always tried to understand the country, its language, history and culture. Their insight has sometimes – as in the case of Ransome and Philips Price – enabled them to guess what was coming.

My generation of correspondents may have witnessed, and understood, the factors that delivered Putin’s initial popularity: his tough line on fighting separatists in Chechnya and his determination to bring Russia’s new tycoons – the oligarchs – under the Kremlin’s control.

I see now that I did not realise fully what I was witnessing that day in May 2000. Looking back two decades later, it feels like the start of yet another revolutionary period in Russia’s history. What seemed then like a peaceful transition of power was the beginning of a new system – the Putin system – that endures to this day, and may last yet longer: giving Moscow correspondents plenty more to write about.

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LOS ANGELES — Dodgers right-hander Joe Kelly will start a minor league rehab assignment on Thursday with Triple-A Oklahoma City, as he works his way back from shoulder inflammation .

The plan for Kelly is to pitch for OKC on Thursday and Sunday before joining the Dodgers on their road trip, manager Dave Roberts said Wednesday at Dodger Stadium. It’s likely that Kelly will be activated off the injured list as early as next Wednesday, when the Dodgers are in Miami.

Kelly last appeared in a game on August 30 , when he pitched 1⅔ innings in emergency relief of an injured Clayton Kershaw, and threw 46 pitches, his most in any appearance since 2016, when Kelly was a starting pitcher.

Player of the day

Kody Hoese drove in four runs in Oklahoma City’s win on Wednesday. He drove in a run on a groundout in the first inning, then had a two-run single in the fifth. In the 10th inning, Hoese delivered the walk-off single to end it.

Ballgame! It's another extra innings walk-off as Kody Hoese provides the game-winning hit! OKC beats Tacoma, 7-6, in 10 innings! pic.twitter.com/0kKWcyZKw9 — Oklahoma City Baseball Club (@okc_baseball) September 11, 2024

Triple-A Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City blew a 6-1 lead but ended up with a second straight walk-off 7-6 win in 10 innings over the Tacoma Rainiers (Mariners) . Drew Avans drove in the game-winner on Tuesday, and on Wednesday he was the free runner on second base to open the 10th. After a walk by Dalton Rushing, Hoese singled home Avans for the win.

Avans had two hits and scored three runs in the win. Second baseman Alan Trejo homered.

Jon Duplantier struck out six in his five innings, and allowed one run in his start.

Double-A Tulsa

A five-run fourth inning provided enough offense for the Drillers to beat the Wichita Wind Surge (Twins) .

Jared Karros started and threw three perfect innings with three strikeouts. Chris Campos piggybacked with four innings and seven strikeouts of his own, and allowed a run.

Tulsa hit five doubles on Wednesday, and shortstop Noah Miller had two of them.

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Double-A : Corner infielder Cristian Santana was activated off the injured list. Outfielder Damon Keith was placed on the development list.

Wednesday scores

• Oklahoma City 7, Tacoma 6 (10 innings)
• Tulsa 5, Wichita 3

Thursday schedule

• 5:05 p.m. PT: Oklahoma City (TBA) vs. Tacoma (Emerson Hancock)
• 5:05 p.m.: Tulsa (Jackson Ferris) at Wichita (Cory Lewis)

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