User:Crtew/Mass Comm Template

Name
Nationality	Nationality
Citizenship	Use only if a dual citizen or immigrant
Occupation	Journalist

Name, also known as ..., (DAY MONTH YEAR – DAY MONTH YEAR), a NATIONALITY MEDIUM OCCUPATION for the ORGANIZATION in CITY, STATE/PROVINCE, COUNTRY ... SUMMARY OF NOTABILITY (You will provide more detailed information about this journalist's nobility under the impact section below).

Instructions

Delete these instructions when you have filled in the bibliographical data: For the following references, fill in the information and replace the web address with the address of the organization's home page. Common References for CPJ, IFJ, IFEX, IPI, and RSF (in which you would still need to fill in the year published, the title (usually it's either the name of the journalist or the title of the article), the date you accessed the article, and the exact URL of the page). DON'T DELETE THE REFERENCES YOU FILL IN!

Committee to Protect Journalists:

The International Federation of Journalists:

International Freedom of Expression Exchange:

Reporters Without Borders:

One of the best ways to establish your journalists place in the encyclopedia is to show Significant Coverage in the international press or in the national press within the journalist's country. Use Google News and be sure to look in the archive for older stories.

Other news articles with author's byline:

Other news articles without author's byline:

A common reference in the context section below is the CIA's The World Factbook, in which you still need to fill in the year, the article title/country, the article title, the day you retrieved the data and the exact URL.

Central Intelligence Agency:

A common reference in the context section below is UNESCO:

UNESCO:

Delete these instructions when you have filled in the journalist's infobox:

• 1. Type in the name after the equal sign. Fill in any data below after the equal signs.
• 2. The exact birth date is not always known. If you can figure out the year of birth from a listed age, then write the year outside the comment tag, but make sure you place a question mark after the year. If you know the exact year, month and day, then remove the comment tags and replace yyyy, mm, dd with known information.
• 3. Birth place is sometimes known.
• 4. The death date and death place is in most cases known.
• 5. Sometimes education is known.
• 6. Usually the occupation is known (e.g., Journalist, Radio journalists, TV camera operator, etc.)
• 7. Did the person have a title for their position (e.g., Director, Editor-in-Chief)?
• 8. Usually nationality is known, but sometimes a person can have dual citizenship, in which cases you would list both.
• 9. Sometimes you will know when the person started his or her career and this will help you identify the years in which they were active as a journalist.

Delete these instructions when you have finished with the lead:

• 1. Write the person's name between the three apostrophes.
• 2. If the person has alternative spellings, then type everything between the quote marks including commas ", also known as altNAME".
• 3. Type in the birth and death dates, replacing day with a number. If you don't know the birth date, the do you know how old the person is? From that you can guess the year(s). If you use an estimate, then type a question mark after the year.
• 4. Write in the person's nationality (American, Malaysian, etc.)
• 5. What was their job title? Use that in place of occupation.
• 6. Which medium or media did the person work in? Newspaper? Radio? Television? Online?
• 7. For which company?
• 8. Where did the person work (City, Country)?
• 9. What is this person known for?
• 10. Write the lead:

Personal

Delete these instructions after filling in personal details about the journalist. What do you know about this person's life outside of career and death? In most cases, you don't need a great amount of detail.

Career

Delete these instructions when you have completed the section about the person's career: Provide any career details and dates. Give background and any examples of important work. Don't go into any death details here.

Death

Mexico City

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Mentioned locations within Mexico relative to the capital Mexico City.

Delete these instructions when you have labeled the map: Find the latitude and longitude of the important cities in the country you will be writing about from Find Latitude and Longitude.

Delete these instructions when you have written about the death of the journalist:

• What happened? Include all the important information like who (all parties involved), what, where (all relevant places), when, why and how/how many?

Context

Delete these instructions after completion: What should the reader know about the country or the situation (e.g., dangerous assignment, embedded journalist, impunity) to better understand what has happened to this journalist and how it relates to journalism in this country or in the world? Citations to the CIA's The World Factbook are common in this section.

Impact

Delete these instructions after completion: Why is this person important? In the lead, you suggested why this person is important, but now you want to give a more complete explanation. It is important to back this up with sources that are not world press freedom organizations, like the CPJ or RSF.

Reactions

Search for the journalist or the event that the journalist was involved in at the time of death in WikiNews

Delete these instructions after completion: What did people have to say about this incident that adds to our knowledge of what happened?

Common references for this section include the UN Secretary General or the UNESCO Director-General and the press freedom organizations.

See also

• University of Southern Indiana (Replace with a relevant article)

References

Warning: Never touch this section!!! References will automatically appear in order here. Delete only these instructions and not the reflist template!

External links

Can you find anything on the web or YouTube that is not a copyright violation but will add to our knowledge?

• Example's title Source

Don't touch this.