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News Judgment


topics in this section: Avoiding Bias, Be Enterprising, Dealing with Profanities, Polls, Surveys & Studies, Public Meetings

These pages allow you to grow as a journalist by getting you to think about how to cover events and what sorts of events should be covered. The topics involve reporting public meetings, analyzing polls and studies, how and whether to broadcast profane speech, as well as tips on avoiding bias, and on becoming an enterprise reporter who finds the stories other reporters miss.