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CNN Newsource in the Classroom
Introduction
CNN is the world's foremost newsgathering network, and it is watched daily in millions of homes, offices, schools and government agencies around the globe. CNN Newsource is the nation's premier news service, licensed to local news providers throughout the world, so that they might utilize news material gathered by CNN to enhance their own newscasts.
CNN Newsource donates the use of this material through CNN Newsource in the Classroom. It's our way of assisting the efforts of colleges, universities and secondary schools that are training the world's future journalism professionals. And what better way to help train tomorrow's journalists than by providing them with access to the same material that is being used by hundreds of local news-producing television stations around the United States and Canada. Schools can add the element of realism to their classrooms by using CNN material in student-produced newscasts that air on campus cable access channels and on other noncommercial stations.
By having such a valuable resource at your fingertips, students can learn to:
- produce newscasts
- write stories to today's video
- produce packages using vo/nat sound elements
- edit packages with reporter tracks
- localize national and international stories
- handle wire copy and use valuable script and rundown information
- practice editorial skills
- develop and sharpen tape production skills
This hands-on experience is invaluable to journalism students who are looking to obtain positions in local television news, thanks in part to the newsroom skills they acquired while using CNN Newsource in the Classroom.
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