Choose an important local or national event that you remember hearing about, and use the following Web sites to help you locate newspaper or magazine articles about the event to find out more. Then, imagining that you have witnessed the event firsthand, write a 3-5 page narrative of what you experienced. Refer to Martin Gansberg’s “http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/scraig/gansberg.html” to see how to use dialogue in your narrative.
“http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=896” A list of links to journalistic sources including journalism organizations and libraries, research, newspapers, and radio and television channels.
“http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html” This site offers links to media-related sites, including links to local newspapers across the United States.
“http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.php” This site offers links and in-depth information about news sources in virtually every nation in the world.
