{"id":186,"date":"2025-03-15T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/writing-the-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:20:56","slug":"writing-the-news","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/writing-the-news\/","title":{"raw":"Writing the News","rendered":"Writing the News"},"content":{"raw":"Now have students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploringstudent\/chapter\/writing-the-news-3\/\">Writing the News<\/a> and go through it with the class, then have them answer the multiple-choice questions individually or as a class.\r\n\r\nAsk students: What parts of this process help to make sure that a news article is reliable?\r\n\r\nMake sure the following points come up (you may want to write them on the board):\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Interviewing sources<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Making sure 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