Steps to Writing a Story

1. Find a Topic
What is your story about?
Who is your audience?
Why is this story important to your audience?

2. Find an Angle
What about your topic?
More specifically, what is important about your topic?
What should the reader learn?
Summarize in 3 words: Subject, Verb, Object
Wife awaits soldier

3. Collect Information
Who are the experts for this story?
Do you need opposing points of view?
What interview questions should I ask?
What other research must be done to complete the story?

4. Interview
Ask open ended questions.
Get good sound bytes. A piece of audio that can stand alone.
Have the person restate the question in the interview.

5. Shoot your reporter Stand-up
Should have a good idea what story is about.
Stand-up should provide information that audience doesnt know.
Use stand up for transition from one location to the next.
No first person: I went.

6. Organize your sound bytes
What quotes should I use?
How can I organize the quotes to tell a story?
What are my gold nuggets?
Sprinkle the nuggets throughout the story!

7. Write segues in your story
Use words that tie the interviews together.
What other information can I add to the story?
Can the story stand on its own?

8. Write the beginning and end of your story
Write body first
Best sound bytes for beginning and end.
Paraphrase a sound byte at the beginning.
Leave them with strongest sound byte at end.
Leave them with hope.

9. Write ins and outs (if necessary)
What should the anchors say to introduce my story or brong it to a close? No scoop went to find out.
How should the story begin and end.
Use attention getters at the introduction but avoid rhetorical questions.

A-Roll
Anything that is said in the story
Anchor in/out
Stand up
Interviews
Segues
Close

10. Collect B Roll
How can video enhance my story?
Make a list of items you would liked photographed.
How should I edit the audio and video together to enhance my story?
Should other enhancements like music,graphics, effects be used?

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?

Freedom of

Speech
Religion
Press
Assembly
Petition

2. What is the Tinker Standard?
Tinker vs. Des Moines School District (1969)
Black armbands in 1965.

Student speech cannot be censored as long as it does not "materially disrupt class work or involve substantial disorder or invasion of the right of others."

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
Bethel School District vs. Fraser (1986)
Inappropriate speech for class president.

Because school officials have an "interest in teaching students the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior," they can censor student speech that is vulgar or indecent, even if it does not cause a "material or substantial disruption."

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier (1988)

Censor stories in student newspaper about teen pregnancy and divorce.
Cencorship of school-sponsored student expression is permissible when school officials can show that it is "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns."

5. What is the Frederick Standard?
Morse vs Frederick (June 25, 2007)

January 2002, Olympic torch travels through town.
Principal Morse cancels school.
Senior Frederick unveils banner on the sidewalk across street which reads "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."
Suspended for 10 days.
Due to it being a school activity, supreme court ruled the school was correct.

6. What is the definition of libel?
Libel is print, slander is spoken.

A defamatory statement. published to at least one other person (other than plantiff). made with fault. That is a false statement of fact (opinions are not libel).

1. Defames someones character
2. Published
3. False statement

Criteria of Newsworthiness Notes

Criteria of Newsworthiness Notes
Definition:
Define “Broadcast Journalism” in 1-3 sentences.
Current Events around the world that is news worthy or of interest. It is normally set over television, radio or Internet.


List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.

TITLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
1. Significance- Event that affects a lot of people.

2. Timeliness- Current news that affects today.

3. Prominence- People that are famous or important.

4. Unusual- Things out of the ordinary.

5. Proximity- Things that are close to us.

6. Human Interest- Some feel good story, something positive.




What are the differences between print journalism and broadcast journalism?
1. Faster (Broadcast can be live), Can't be updated (Print)

2. Print you can choose what you want to see

3. Printing can go much more into detail


Why has online journalism (convergent media) become so popular?
You can have the best of both worlds