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Exercise on finding good sources

First, some background info

Video - How Journalists Minimize Bias:

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/how-journalists-minimize-bias

Video on Journalist's toolbox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbq90HOz0R4&t=23s

Journalists Toolbox:

https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/2021/11/01/expert_sources/

Should journalists be impartial?
https://medium.com/@gabrielecruciata/should-journalists-be-impartial-b9af82c0ea28

Other sites

https://ijnet.org/en/story/5-ways-find-sources-online

https://training.npr.org/2017/09/25/the-art-and-skill-of-working-with-sources/


ONLINE RESEARCH RESOURCES:

How to tell if websites are reliable: http://journalism.about.com/od/reporting/a/Eight-Ways-To-Tell-If-A-Website-Is-Reliable.htm

google news: https://news.google.com/
 

google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
 
microsoft academic search: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

The exercise

You're a reporter assigned to write an objective news story analyzing how well or how poorly former President Trump did in improving the economy. You'll examine such factors as the unemployment rate, the performance of the stock market and consumer spending.

Below are a variety of possible sources of information for your story. They include both individuals and government agencies. Do some research on these sources, critically analyzing each for their levels of expertise, possible biases, and so on. You are seeking sources who are knowledgeable about this topic and who will provide a fair and accurate analysis. 

Then outline the strengths and weaknesses of each source, stating whether you would use that source in your story. Write about a paragraph for each source, explaining clearly why you would - or would not - use that source. Feel free to use other websites in addition to the ones below for your research.

For this exercise, here are your possible sources:

Ian Bremmer, founder, The Eurasia Group:

bio: https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/ibremmer

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bremmer


Gita Gopinath, chief economist, IMF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gita_Gopinath

https://www.imf.org/en/About/senior-officials/Bios/gita-gopinath


Wayne Allyn Root

https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root


Betsey Stevenson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsey_Stevenson

https://lsa.umich.edu/econ/people/faculty/betseys.html


Paul Krugman

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman


Krugman Columns:


https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman


Ann Coulter

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter

Columns: http://www.anncoulter.com/archives.html


U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis: http://www.bea.gov/