1. DISCUSS the reading
2. Q. What’s the difference between
Breaking News and Scheduled News?
BREAKING:
2.2. >>> Q. Attributions?
(Quotes and facts that come from sources)
2.3 >>> Q. Observations?
(Facts and descriptions the reporter noticed and is reporting out)
3. Other reporting that comes out of Breaking News stories:
The Follow-up or Second Day Story
SCHEDULED:
4. Other reporting that comes out of Scheduled News:
Advances, Precedes, Previews
TIPS FOR BREAKING AND SCHEDULED:
BREAKING:
Write quickly
Use observations
Gather quotes (first hand accounts)
(Bonus: grab still or video)
SCHEDULED:
Many of same principles as breaking
Keep a calendar
Don’t become publicity pawn
LOCAL TOWN PAPER ANALYSIS (from the reading)
Breakdown:
29 stories Breaking
111 stories Scheduled
75 came from news releases
12 came from staff or reader ideas
SOURCING
Q. How do you find sources?
Scenario: Breaking News: Former actor and CA governor Arnold Swartzenegger is signed to NY Giants.
Who or what might your sources be?
Scenario: Breaking News:
Nikki Minaj is hired as professor in fashion department at Marist
Who and what might your sources be?
Scenario: Breaking News: Earthquake Opens Up Chasm Splitting Marist in Half
Who and what might your sources be?
Q. How do you trust sources?
~OBSERVE / QUESTION / REPORT
Engaging news reporting requires factual observations, details, reliable sources, and should be told succinctly.
20 minutes. Go outside this building, find SOMETHING happening. Anything. (A plane soars overhead through the sky).
Take note of what is happening. Observe and describe it from your first hand experience as a reporter on the scene. (A plane in the distance, silver, low orange light on the horizon reflects off the wing, the sound of the plane is muffled, there are marshmallow-like clouds in the sky).
Interview a source nearby who can comment on the event. (Steven Smith, 21, Sports Comm major, From Levittown, likes planes. “It’s no superman, but it’s cool.” “I’ve wanted to be a pilot all my life.” “We see planes overhead all the time here.”
Come back here, and write a VERY SHORT BREAKING NEWS STORY using your reporting. Email me the breaking report.
Example:
A plane flew over Marist College in Poughkeepsie Thursday evening.
“It’s no Superman, but it’s cool,” proclaimed Levittown native Steven Smith.
Smith, 21, a sports communication major at Marist, said he always wanted to be a pilot.
“We see planes overhead all the time here.”
Low on the horizon, the orange light reflected off the wings as the plane continued over the Hudson Valley, disappearing into the distance among marshmallow-like clouds.
DUE WEDNESDAY:
HW: Read I.R. Chapter 3 (“Newswriting Basics”)
HW: Interview a stranger. (NOT A FRIEND, ROOMMATE, OR FAMILY MEMBER)
Ask questions about a current event / hot topic in the news.
Transcribe your questions and their answers.
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