Leadership Skills | Giving Voice to Values
Objectives:
- To illustrate how journalists at various stages in their career use their voices to effect change.
- To prompt students to consider when they should support or challenge newsroom leadership.
- To give students opportunity to practice giving voice to their values in response to scenarios in news organizations that they might encounter.
- To prompt students to consider how personal identities influence the voices of journalists.
Module Overview:
Journalists often encounter values conflicts when the way they want to conduct their lives conflicts with the expectations of others such as their coworkers, bosses, and perhaps even their news sources. They must develop the skills to recognize and analyze these situations and then speak and act on their values.
