Topic - Nancy's Kidney Transplant
Angle - Recovery process.

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a topic.
-What is your story about?
-Who is your audience?
-Why is the 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 solider

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. Conduct the interview.
-Ask open ended questions.
-Get good sounds bytes. A PIECE OF AUDIO THAT CAN STAND ALONE.
-Have the person restate the question in the interview.
-Interview three people, and ask three questions

5. Shoot your reporter Stand-UP.
-Should have a good idea what story is about
-Stand-UP should provide information that audience doesn't 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 the body first
-Best sound bytes for beginning and end
-Paraphrase a sound byte at the beginning
-Leave then 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 bring 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?

10. Collect B-ROLL to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
-How can video enhance my story?
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A-ROLL.

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

• speech
• press
• assemble
• petition
• religion           

                       
2. What is the Tinker Standard?

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

3. What is the Frasier Standard?

•  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?

• Censorship 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

• 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

6. What is the definition of libel?

• has to be false, has to be spoken, printed, broadcast, hurts someone's character