Week 2

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Week 2 Radio Reporting
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Your turn Quiz 1

• Who was Edward R. Murrow? Why would we be
  interested in talking about him in this class?
• What is a driveway moment?
• Which of the NPR stories that you listened to
  prompted a driveway moment? Please explain why.
• List one goal of the NPR Code of Ethics
• What changes to radio programming did David
  Luscher predict would occur?
• What story did you choose and why?

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Dissection
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Stories are like pineapples
If radio stories are like pineapples, what is the
skin of a story or the outside? LISTEN HERE
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Stories are like pineapples
What is the skin? What are the inedible layers
but important layers?
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Stories are like pineapples
What is the core or the nut graph of the
Heathrow story?
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What makes something a story?

• Review elements of newsworthiness
• timeliness, human interest, impact, controversy,
  entertainment, prominence.

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What makes a good radio story?

• Listen to Uninsured Americans.

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Uninsured Americans

• Why is it a story?
• What makes it newsworthy?
• What is the nut graph?
• What is the skin?
• What are the inedible layers?
• Did it offer a driveway moment? How could it have
  been better?

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Reporting Refreshers

• Accuracy
• - What can you do to help guarantee that what
  you report and write are accurate?
• - Fact-checking
• Fair
• Unbiased
• Follow-up questions

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Writing Basics

• Write as you speak
• Use present tense
• Dont paraphrase that for which you will be using
  for sound
• Use simple sentence structures
• Avoid broad assertions and generalities
• Dont over-attribute
• Write short sentences
• Avoid hypotheticals, including questions.
• Dont be repetitive

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Exercise

• In pairs, rewrite the following lead and first
  graph of this story from the New York Times,
  referring to Chapter 3 of Sound Reporting

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Writing Basics

• Dont use too many names or numbers
• Watch tongue twisters
• Watch the trite
• Make sure you understand what you write

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Story organization next week
Story structure (Chapter 4, Sound
Reporting) Introduction promise to readers (nut
graph) The First Track -
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