10 steps to writing a story

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

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
3. Collect information-
- who are the experts for this story?
-do you need opposing views?
-what interview questions should you ask?
-what other research must be done to complete the story?

4. Conduct the Interview-
-ask open ended questions
-rule of 3: filling the scilence, the non-question question, get good sound bites
-get good sound bytes, A PEICE OF AUDIO THAT CAN STAND ALONE.
5. Shoot your reporter stand up-
- should have a good idea what story is about
- no first person: i want
-stand up should provide information that audience doesnt know.
6. Organize your sound bytes-
- what quotes should i use?
- how can i orginaze the quotes to tell a 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 begining
-leave them with strongest sound byte at end.
9. Write the anchor ______________ and ________________ (if necessary).
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10. Collect ___________ to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the ____________________.

Facebook photos land Eden Prairie kids in trouble

In Eden Prairie someone reported pictures of student athletes having pictures of them with drinks in their hands on facebook. this resulted in the students having to have meetings with their deans and getting suspended from the sport they play. i think this is invasion of privacy and its not something the school should be handling its something the parents should be taking care of. and i also think its ridiculous that someone has snitched on them. it doesn't benefit anything.

Which court standard did someone follow or break in your article?
Do you agree with the decisions in your article? no i dont think school should be invovled with personal life outside of school.
What do you feel should have been done in this instance? the parents should have handled it.
What do you feel will be the future of rights in today's digital age? they will probably start censoring texts
What rights do you have inside of school? none
What rights do you have outside of school? freedom of religion, pettition, speech (kinda)

notes on first amendment

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?
speech, religon. pettition, press, assmbly

2. What is the Tinker Standard?
student speech cannot be censored as long as it does not "materially" disrupt class.

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
they can censor student speech that is valgure or indesient.

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
censorchip of school sponsered student expression is permissible when school officals can show that it is reasonably related to legitimate pedagoglical concerns.

5. What is the Frederick Standard?


6. What is the definition of libel?

wisconsin power play

in wisconsin there is a lot of protesting going on against budget and unions. the governer wants to get rid of the unions. Wisconsin is facing a budget crunch, although its difficulties are less severe than those facing many other state. i wonder why wisconsin is having such budget problems? what are they spending their money on?

student press law quiz

i got a 20 out of 30 on the quiz. i guessed on most of them because there were a lot of words. so i must be a good guesser!

First Amendment Quiz

i got 12 out of 30 on the amendment quiz. this shows that i should learn more about the first amendment so i will know which of my rights are protected.

O.j. simpson was beaten in prision

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/oj-simpson-beaten-unconscious-prison-attack_n_823504.html

O.J. simpson claimed that while he was in jail he got beat up by another prisoner. This being a big deal, it was the talk around the nation for a little bit. recently, a jail gaurd reports that O.j. simpson was never attacked or even came close to being attacked while in prision. But the gaurd was lying and O.j simpson did in fact get attacked, the jail gaurds wanted it to be a secret and didnt want to seem like prision was out of control.