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Front Page worksheet

Story
Categories

Federal
Politics

Local
Politics

Crime

Business/
Economics

No. of
Stories

_____

_____

_____

_____

Story
Categories

Sports

Education/
Health

Culture

Human
Interest

No. of
Stories

_____

_____

_____

_____

Answer the following questions:

  1. How many of the front page stories were about ethnocultural minority groups?
    ______________________ 
  2. How were the people from ethnocultural minority groups portrayed? Were they depicted favourably? Why?
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
  3. What story do you think was the most important of the week? Who would be most interested in that story? Explain your choice.__________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________

Reprinted, with permission, from News is Not Just Black and White, a workbook produced by the Canadian Newspaper Association.


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