User:LeahJones13/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 *  Article title  Newspaper extra
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * This article is very underdeveloped but the content is relevant to the topic. I would consider this article to be a synposis of the entire subject rather than a developed wikipedia page.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * This article is written neutrally and just provides information that is is based on factual evidence. Again, the article is very underdeveloped and is rated stub class of high importance to the wikiproject journalism. There is a quote from John Pulitzer at the end that has been discussed in the talk page. The talk page recognizes it as not adding 'meat' to the article but rather just adds some 'colour'.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Each Claim in this article has a citation. They are well associated to the phrase and are frequently throughout the article despite it being short. Therefore, it appears the author(s) have put much thought and care into what they have created thus far.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * The citations used are from published books and are varied and frequent throughout the article. Alongside this, there are hyperlinks that connected other wikipedia articles that relate to this one. So, despite the article being short, there is connections to other information for reader in the time being.
 * Sources:
 * Gaff, D. (2017). Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Newspaper Archives as Archaeological Site Survey. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 24(2), 451-465.
 * Morin, E. (2013). Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Structuring the U.S. History Survey Around the Motif of the Newspaper. The History Teacher, 46(2), 283-292.
 * Walter Carlson. (1966). Advertising: 'Extra' to Sell Newspaper Role. New York Times (1923-Current File), p. 120.
 * Rainy. (2008, November 6). Extra! Extra! Newspaper sales soar. Retrieved from https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-06-na-newspapers6-story.html
 * Walter Carlson. (1966). Advertising: 'Extra' to Sell Newspaper Role. New York Times (1923-Current File), p. 120.
 * Rainy. (2008, November 6). Extra! Extra! Newspaper sales soar. Retrieved from https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-06-na-newspapers6-story.html



Option 2

 * Article title Long-form journalism
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * The article's content is relevant to the topic, however it does not give the reader a sturdy foundation of information that would allow them to grasp an understanding of what long-form journalism is. The sub-headings are related to various periods in time, but they are not actually dated/cited properly to giving an exact date or date range. It can be seen that by the citation is a note that says (when?) and is a hyperlink to the guide to citing dates properly in the wikipedia community. This may be an interesting thing to correct as it requires fact checking the author(s) initial research and citing. This would improve the article immensely and may be something to take on when choosing an article to improve on for this assignment.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * The article is written is what appears to be a neutral and objective tone. The actual professionalism of the writing style is very weak and appears scattered despite there being such an array of subheadings. This could be improved on by looking to reformat and strengthen the information that is already present on the page.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * The article has various citations, but there are several occurrences when the author uses a hyperlink to link another wikipedia article to provide evidence to their claim. This could be changed by providing peer reviewed academic sources/reliable sources to supplement this information. This article appears to be an amalgamation of subheadings rather than address the actual subject on its own; both a positive and a negative.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * The citations are reliable for the most part, however, some of them are weak as the are newspaper articles rather than a peer reviewed source. The paper review source is important to some cases.
 * Sources
 * Tulloch, J. (2014). Ethics, trust and the first person in the narration of long-form journalism. Journalism,15(5), 629-638.
 * Ramon-Vegas, X., & Tulloch, C. (2016). Long-form sports journalism in the digital era. A comparative analysis of L'equipe explore and Sports illustrated longform. Profesional De La Informacion, 25(3), 404-412.
 * Ricketson, M. (2016). When slow news is good news: Book-length journalism's role in extending and enlarging daily news. Journalism Practice: Slow Journalism. Guest Edited by Megan Le Masurier, 10(4), 507-520.
 * Ramon-Vegas, X., & Tulloch, C. (2016). Long-form sports journalism in the digital era. A comparative analysis of L'equipe explore and Sports illustrated longform. Profesional De La Informacion, 25(3), 404-412.
 * Ricketson, M. (2016). When slow news is good news: Book-length journalism's role in extending and enlarging daily news. Journalism Practice: Slow Journalism. Guest Edited by Megan Le Masurier, 10(4), 507-520.

Option 3

 * Article title News program
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * The content of this article is somewhat relevant but it is not well organized. Overall, the article is not written in a strong manner and is difficult at times to follow. The article mentions several well-known hosts such as Diane Sawyer which does not provide any substance to the article but rather just appears as more of a statement to fill space rather than to inform. Alongside this, the subheading appears to have positive intentions but it is broad and unspecific to the article. The information underneath the "History" heading is relevant to the United States and it would be important to elaborate on this and give a more world view perspective.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * The article is written neutrally in respect to the wording, though the choice of the information included appears to be very specific to a point of view. This hinders the over neutrality. This is something discuses in looking at objectivity as a ritual and I can see this being the case in this article.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * This article has very few citations that are exterior to wikipedia. It would be beneficial to find external sources that aide this integrity of this article. The two citations within the short article are well done.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Further the discussion above, the article only has few citations and few completed. After attempting to follow a link within the article's references the link took me to a page that said 404 can not be found. This would be considered a source that is not reliable and would make me want to look further at the reliability of the rest of the sources if I continue to work on this article.
 * Sources:
 * Wiesław Czechowski. (2018). The Ways to Support theses in Television News Programs. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 48(2), 225-244.
 * Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, & Crtc. (2011, April 11). Television Program Categories. Retrieved from https://crtc.gc.ca/canrec/eng/tvcat.htm
 * Nielsen, R. K., Sambrook, R., Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, & Cardiff University. (2016, April 6). What Is Happening to Television News? Retrieved from http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2016/what-is-happening-to-television-news/
 * Nielsen, R. K., Sambrook, R., Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, & Cardiff University. (2016, April 6). What Is Happening to Television News? Retrieved from http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2016/what-is-happening-to-television-news/

Option 4

 * Article title News Feed
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? This article is rated start-class and has a great amount of information to begin a very strong article. The article does a very good of chronologically detailing the evolution of the Facebook platform's "News Feed". I would consider building on the section 'influence' because I believe there could be much more detail in this section to describe and explore the influence of the Facebook 'News Feed' on culture, politics and community. I appreciate the use of sub-headings that well separate various sections in order to keep information organized and navigable.
 * Is it written neutrally? This article is written neutrally and uses many sources to supplements claims. This helps to maintain objectivity as truthfulness and neutrality whilst contributing to professionalism. The author(s) incorporate many factual and relevant pieces of information. There are various grammatical errors that need to be fixed.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Many of the claims have citations, I will say though there are certain sentences within this article that would be strengthened immensely by way of citations. Especially in the "influences" sub-heading section of the article.
 * Are the citations reliable? After looking into the various citations, they appear for the most part reliable. There were quite a few journal sources but I will need to review them more thoroughly if I choose to assign myself to this article.
 * Sources:
 * Goldsborough, R. (2017). Understanding Facebook's News Feed. Teacher Librarian, 44(5), 61,63.
 * Hoadley, C., Xu, H., Lee, J., & Rosson, M. (2010). Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry. Electronic Commerce Research And Applications, 9(1), 50-60.
 * Silva, D., Hutchens, M., Donaway, R., & Beam, M. (2018). 300 Million Clicks and Political Engagement via Facebook in the 2016 American Presidential Election: How Online Activity Changes Across Time and Sources. Mass Communication and Society: Media Theory and the 2016 U.S. Election, 21(6), 742-762.
 * Silva, D., Hutchens, M., Donaway, R., & Beam, M. (2018). 300 Million Clicks and Political Engagement via Facebook in the 2016 American Presidential Election: How Online Activity Changes Across Time and Sources. Mass Communication and Society: Media Theory and the 2016 U.S. Election, 21(6), 742-762.