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Covering Mental Health

WEBIn the mid-1800s, the activist Dorothea Dix helped spearhead a reform movement in mental health, which resulted in the construction of public psychiatric hospitals across the …

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WEBTable of Contents Case Study 1: The American Revolution and Early Republic Case Study 2: The Civil War Case Study 3: Covering Mental Health

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Covering Mental Health

WEBAs is often the case with large institutions, state mental hospitals began to run into some of the same problems that Dix had set out to fight in the first place, including poor …

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WEBNellie Bly’s exposé in the New York World drew nationwide attention to the problems of mental institutions and made her an overnight sensation. Unsurprisingly, the paper’s …

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Female Journalists of World War II

WEBIn this case study, students will learn about the contributions of female journalists during World War II. (Cover photo: Six female war correspondents who covered the US Army in …

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Covering Mental Health

WEBCreate your Own Social Media Post. In this scenario, you are the social media producer in your newsroom. Your editor has just assigned you to create a post that highlights the …

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WEBjournalism through the years. Journalism in Action allows you to learn about ten key moments in US history through a journalist's lens. In this interactive website designed for …

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Journalism in Action: Educator Guides

WEBCite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. · CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a …

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Migrant Workers

WEBWatch a news interview program based on Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame and connect the issues of migrant farmworkers from 1960 to today. Analyze …

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WEBOver the course of the nineteenth century, medical experts learned a good deal about mental health issues. Improvements in care varied from state to state and hospital to …

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Investigative Journalists: The Muckrakers

WEBMuckrakers were investigative journalists during the Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) who shone a light on corrupt business and government leaders as well as major social …

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Investigative Journalists: The Muckrakers

WEBThe Assignment: In this scenario, you are the social media producer in your newsroom. Your editor has given you an assignment to create a post highlighting the journalistic …

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Migrant Workers

WEBMurrow's production style, evidenced in Harvest of Shame, inspired the full genre of today's investigative television reporting, in daily news segments, weekly shows like 60 Minutes, …

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WEBNellie Bly’s report on Blackwell’s Island caught the public’s attention immediately. Bly’s exposé expedited the work already being done by city lawmakers and advocates to push …

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WEBMany lived in almshouses, or homes for the poor, or jails, out of the public’s eye. In 1841, a young schoolteacher named Dorothea Lynde Dix visited a jail in Cambridge, …

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Investigative Journalists: The Muckrakers

WEBHow the Other Half Lives. Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives documented the deplorable living conditions in New York City’s slums in the 1880s. It was one of the …

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WEBThe term “lunatic asylum” was used to refer to a psychiatric or mental health hospital in the 1800s. It was widely seen as derogatory and dropped out of use by the end of the …

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Investigative Journalists: The Muckrakers

WEBIn this final activity, you will have the opportunity to create your own front-page news story on a modern-day issue in which an individual or group is attempting to fight corruption or …

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