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Record W311972626

Deadline Reporting: Terrorism on September 11.

2003· article· en· W311972626 on OpenAlex
Linda Kay

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueAcademic exchange quarterly · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPublic Relations and Crisis Communication
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFeelingJournalismClass (philosophy)Tragedy (event)PsychologyMedia studiesSisterLawHistorySociologySocial psychologyPolitical scienceComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abstract As the eyes and ears of the community, journalists must disasters--natural and man-made. Yet it's difficult to teach students how to a tragedy or how to write a story under harrowing circumstances in the classroom setting, where discussion is theoretical and reactions can only be imagined. September 11th presented an opportunity to convey a lesson in reporting and writing that might stay with my students for years to come. But I hesitated to take that opportunity. Were my students ready? Was I? ********** On September 11th, I was scheduled to teach a weekly class in Deadline Reporting to the graduate students in the journalism program at Concordia. An hour before the noontime class, a handful of students stood outside my office door. I'm a native New Yorker, transplanted to Canada in 1990, and I'd shed some tears in private that morning already, unable to reach my own family members in Manhattan. When I came to the door to greet my students, my eyes, I'm certain, mirrored the same shock, uncertainty and numbness that their eyes carried. They wanted to know if there would be a class. At that moment, I really didn't know. The director of the journalism department told me I didn't have to teach if I didn't feel up to it. I still hadn't made contact with my family at that point, and was particularly worried about my sister, who worked near the financial district. And, underneath the worry, I had sentimental feelings. I was married in Tower One of the World Trade Center in Windows on the World. Now, the memory of that unusually warm Saturday night in November, when a massive New York traffic jam almost made me late for my own wedding, played over and over in my mind. Should I teach? Could I teach? And if I did teach, what would I teach? I had planned to have a young reporter from Canadian Press (CP) talk about her own experiences reporting on deadline in the second half of the class. I'd set up the event as an assignment, whereby the students would cover her talk and then immediately exit the classroom to write a story on deadline. Now, with the magnitude of unfolding events, the topic of Deadline Reporting seemed at once particularly pertinent yet strangely irrelevant. How could I ask students to fully concentrate on a speaker when world events were so distracting? And how could I ask them to write up the talk after class, when they, like everyone else, would want to focus on the events into which we were all plunged that day? Another teacher in the department, perhaps sensing my agitation, diverted my attention momentarily from my own dilemma by telling me about new classroom space that the department had acquired. We walked down four flights of stairs to check out the now empty classroom and determine its feasibility for a class of twenty. The whole excursion took only fifteen minutes, but leaving my worry beads for even a short time made me feel better. The outing clinched my decision. I would teach. I reasoned it would help me feel less powerless if I was in the classroom trying to do something. But what? Should I carry on with my planned lesson? Should I alter some of it and keep the rest? Should I scrap it all and do something completely different? Should I cancel the speaker? Emotions were running sky high, mine as well as my students, and they were clearly looking at me for direction. I decided to abandon my own lecture that day and to proceed with the speaker at the top of the class. I managed to reach her on her cell phone and ask her to come early, which she was able to do. In the classroom, before introducing the speaker, I told my students not to worry about writing a story off the talk. I wanted to relieve them of that burden and let us all simply listen. The speaker happened to be extremely engaging, and the students paid rapt attention. Like me, they seemed both to welcome the distraction she provided and to relate to her as a young person who'd achieved considerable success in a field they might like to pursue. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.734
Threshold uncertainty score0.728

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.074
GPT teacher head0.384
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it