Real World Experience
Experience the Wall Street Journal
- Item Number
- 9935
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 253 USD to miomiomio
- Number of Bids
- 22 - Bid History
Item Description
The media business is undergoing rapid change. Newspapers, broadcast media, blogs, online news sites and social networks all compete in a rush to be the first to report news in a 24-hour cycle. The competition harkens to the days of Yellow Journalism and the competition between Joseph Pulitzer II and William Randolph Hearst. Today's media barons include Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.), Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Eric Schmidt (Google).
But at the end of the day, the challenge remains the same: How to research, gather and synthesize a vast amount of information and then present it in a sellable and readable format. This Real World Experience** will allow one student to spend a day with a Wall Street Journal reporter who focuses on financial investigations. Before the appointed day arrives, the student will be given a list of movies or books to review. The experience itself will include a real-world journalism breakfast (coffee, grits, and a fried-egg sandwich at an Atlanta diner and a review of current news and that morning's editions of The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times). We will meet with several sources to discuss how they interact with financial markets (a bank analyst, for example) and how they work with the Wall Street Journal. We'll also schedule meetings with Atlanta reporters at the Journal, visit a courthouse to find potential stories, and report and write a story based on interviews we conduct during the day. If time allows, we'll even eat lunch. Finally, we will discuss the news of that day and discuss how they might be played in the next morning's papers.
Item Special Note
Grades 10 - 12
**A note: Good for one student and one parent. If a family is scheduling a trip to New York, this real-world experience is applicable for that and would include for the student and a parent the following: A tour of the Wall Street Journal/News Corp. headquarters in midtown Manhattan, meetings with editors and those who work in the publishing and financial industry, a meeting with New York Times reporters and potentially a tour of CBS News.
Donated By:
Carrick Mollenkamp, The Wall Street Journal
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