Education News Project Planning Grant

摘要美国科学与教育进步基金会（FASE）正在申请一项计划拨款，以探索建立一个针对商业和非商业新闻节目的专门教育新闻服务的可行性和潜力。在此规划阶段，他们将：{SYMBOL 183 \f“SYMBOL”\s 10 \h}召集一个咨询委员会来审查和完善项目。该委员会将审查诸如此类新闻服务应包括哪些类型的信息，如何选择故事以及由谁选择，如何确定每个故事的准确性和平衡性，以及如何根据对观众兴趣，知识和行动的影响来评估努力的有效性；{SYMBOL 183 \f“SYMBOL”\s 10 \h}进行市场调查，以确定电视新闻市场对这类信息产品的接受程度，{SYMBOL 183 \f“SYMBOL”\s 10 \h}分析故事可以有效和经济地传播的方法，{SYMBOL 183 \f“SYMBOL”\s 10 \h}假设这样一个项目的可行性成立，制定一个具体的计划，在更大和更长期的范围内进行。

9452907 Heard ABSTRACT The Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education (FASE) is requesting a planning grant to explore the feasibility and potential of establishing a specialized educational news service aimed at both commercial and noncommercial news programs. During this planning phase they will: {SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h} convene an Advisory Board to review and refine the project. This committee will examine such issues as what types of information should be included in such a news service, how stories will be selected and by whom, how accuracy and balance of each story will be determined, and how to assess the effectiveness of the effort in terms of impact on viewers interests, knowledge, and action; {SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h} conduct market research to ascertain the receptiveness of the television news markets to an information product of this type, {SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h} analyze the methods by which stories could be effectively and economically distributed, and {SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h} assuming that feasibility of such a project is established, develop a specific plan for proceeding in a larger and longer-term scope.