Valentine's Day Bake Sale A Sweet Success!

Lots of signage and student support made for a big day!

Valentine's Day on Feb. 14 was a little sweeter on the SC State campus thanks to the bake sale put on by the Communications Club.

The purpose was to sell goodies and raise some money to help the Communications Program's Bulldog News Now (BNN) buy some needed equipment.

And what a picture perfect day we had too!

News Criteria Analysis Project

In my Copy Editing class the students and I are discussing news.  What makes news news? 

We are studying the traditional news values. Nine criteria seem to be the expected elements that influence news reporters and editors to cover and include stories in a newspaper or broadcast.

Using the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper from Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 I have identified a story or two that fulfills each criteria from the news value checklist.  And each report is also identified by its types of story.

Consequence/Impact

President Trump delivered his State of the Union address last night. He covered many topics of national interest and spoke of new initiatives that may have impact on Americans in various way.

This types of news story that this speech could be categorized in would be government and politics.