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Day 782x7: Quote patterns, the semi-colon, and COD

OK people, it's time to seriously review some quote patterns and formatting issues:

1. Correct the mistakes in this sentence
"It was a great game." Holland Bool said, "We surprised San Marin and crushed them with our mighty play."

2. Correct the mistakes in this sentence
"It's clear we were a better team," Bool said. "We played with greater skill, they just couldn't handle our defense."

3. Correct the mistakes in these sentences
Bool also commented on why the team won the game. "We were just better and played with great effort."

4. Correct the mistakes in these sentences
"I love water polo, and playing 2-meter is where I get to see the most action with the ball," said Bool. "There is also a lot of action on the perimeter."

Kate Claman agreed, "The perimeter is where a lot of action takes place."

5. Correct the mistakes in these sentences
It's obvious that water polo is an intense and vigorous sport. It takes dedication, heart, soul, humor, and lots of time in the water. The Marin Academy girls water polo team has shown that it can hang with the best of teams and play strong defense no matter what. They are a great group of gals, and as the season comes to a close let's wish them all lots of luck.

Conference on Democracy
A block panel moderators: Morgan & Phillip. Write intros and organize questions.
G block panel moderators: Chiara & Taylor (a great video to help you get some shape to the questions). Write intros and organize questions.

Day 872: Drafts, COD, graphics, briefs and more

Let's get down to work:
Editors: read all drafts. Make final edits, suggestions, criticisms. What should the graphic look like?
Staff: Tiger -- get those senior speeches up; Holland -- how goes those videos?; Chiara -- are you less stressed than last week? Let's get up those book suggestions from Trevor!; Henry -- did you interview more people? You know you're on to video the senior speeches on Thursday, right?; Olivia -- you've talked to more humans, on the record, right?

Start to think about ... articles for next edition!

After all is said and done -- we need to work on the COD questions. Get cracking. Work in teams. Let's come up with a good collection of questions so we can edit them down and make them better!

A few good reads for Snowden:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/us/edward-snowden-fast-facts/index.html

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/11/221359323/reporter-had-to-decide-if-snowden-leaks-were-the-real-thing

http://world.time.com/2013/10/14/greenwald-on-snowden-leaks-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/leaks-by-edward-snowden-suggest-nsa-collects-millions-of-americans-address-books/2013/10/15/ce043b56-359f-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

Some insights into the anonymous quote from a friend an fellow journalism advisor:

We do occasionally run anonymous quotes, when the information is both sensitive and unobtainable without granting anonymity. For example, we just did a strong piece, out tomorrow, about Shelby's Law, which passed in 2010 in California, that gives minors immunity from alcohol-related infractions if they summon help for someone who is suffering from alcohol poisoning or other problems related to the overconsumption of alcohol.

We had a couple of students quoted in the story anonymously who were describing circumstances at parties when they let drunk friends just "sleep it off," and how they would respond differently now that they know the law exists. But those students were not willing to have their names attached to the stories, and I agreed with my reporters that the anecdotal information the sources had to offer was critical in putting the law in context. And so, we granted anonymity.

But a kid who just wants to anonymously offer a one-sentence hit-and-run on a drama program or on the individuals associated with the program? And wants to do it with verbal obscenity?

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