Welcome to News Journalism and The Knight Crier
Mr. Kevin J. Manero
manerokj@npenn.org
215-368-9800 Ext 4880
The Knight Crier www.knightcrier.org
Course Overview:
News Journalism is a unique course at North Penn High School in
that beyond just producing assignments, what students produce
in this course is directly for publication in our high school
newspaper, The Knight Crier. Grades for the course are
determined through the compilation of a portfolio of that work.
The work completed for this course goes beyond just writing stories, as well. In order for a
journalistic publication to thrive it needs production in many other
areas: photography, graphics, cartoons, social media, research,
finances, publicity/ marketing, and many other areas.
Expectations:
In order for students to be successful in this course, they must be
aware of and well versed on happenings in the school, the
community, the nation, and the world. In order to be continuously
productive as a member of the Knight Crier staff, students must read
and watch the news on a daily basis, be well informed about developments in NPHS and
throughout the school district, and must have a willingness to be innovative, ambitious, organized,
and confident.
Remember – we cannot produce quality journalism if we do not
know what it looks like, and if we do not read newspapers or
watch news broadcasts, we will not know what it looks like.
Content of the Course:
The topics covered through production work in this course:
News Stories, Feature Articles, Personality Profiles, Sports Reports, Opinion/Editorial pieces,
Weekly columns, Investigative pieces