Lesson 22 — Activity 3: Local, National, or International News
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Lesson 22 — Activity 3:
Local, National, or International News
Warm Up
Our newspapers, magazines, television, and radio carry different stories from different places whether within our city, province, or country or in different countries around the world.
In this activity, you will learn the difference between local, national, and international news stories.
In order to decide whether news is local, national, or international news , you must identify the location where the event took place. Local news occurs in our community, town, city, or province. National news would occur in our country (Canada), and international news occurs in other places in the world.
Try and recall some of the biggest local news events of the year. Can you do the same for national news? International news? Which stories affected you directly (teachers' strikes, park closings, etc.)? Which stories affected you indirectly (world hunger, natural disasters, rising oil prices, etc.)? Which stories did not affect you at all?
Click here for examples of local news coverage for people who live in Edmonton and northern Alberta.
Self-check!
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Try This!
Look at the front pages of the newspapers shown above, and answer the following questions.
1. Which story would likely be of interest only to people in your city or province?
2. Which story might be interesting to people throughout Canada?
3. Which story might be interesting to people around the world?
1. Image 1 would be of interest to Vancouver.
2. Image 2 would be of interest to Canada.
3. Image 3 would be of international interest.
Digging Deeper!