News Curation Project Rubric

Category
Newsworthines
s
(10 points)

Comment,
headline and
writing
(10)

Diversity of
sources
(20)

Overall added
values
(5)

Focus
(5)

A
The project is
about an evolving
issue that is related
to the interest of
target audience.
Has more than four
of the following
elements:
Timeliness
Prominence
Proximity
Consequen
ce
Oddity
Conflict
Emotion
Participator
y
Civic
importance
Headline grabs
attention and
representative.
Comments help
understanding and
flow of the story.

B
The project is
about evolving
issue but draws
little attention.
Has one or three of
the following
elements:
Timeliness
Prominence
Proximity
Consequen
ce
Oddity
Conflict
Emotion
Participator
y
Civic
importance

C
The project is
not related to
the interest of
wider
audience.

Headline grabs
attention but not
representative. Or
vice versa.
Comments help
readers
understanding.

Includes more than

three tweets, a
video, and an
online article.
Source are
adequate and
compensate each
other.
News curation has
produced a totally
new story in terms
of viewpoint or
contexts.

Includes more than

three tweets, a
video, and an
online article.
But they are not
adequate or
repetitions.

Headline does
not point to the
core of the
story.
Comments do
not contribute
to the value of
the story.
Sources do not
fully meet the
standard.

News curation has Little added

added some values. values. Just an
aggregation of
news.

No values of
its own.

Focused on a
specific aspect of a
large issue.

Has a depth and

quantity of facts.
But not focused on
one aspect.

Hard to
understand
what the
project is for.

But has some

of the elements
of
newsworthines
s.

Lacks focus.

D
The project has
no relevance to
the target
audience.
Has none of
the elements of
newsworthines
s.

Lacking either
headline
or
adequate
comments.

Mostly
irrelevant
sources, that
were hastily
aggregated.