writing. notes.

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?
Ex: Deaths, Gas Prices, School Events.
2. Find an Angle
-What about your topic?
-more specifically whats important about your topic?
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3. Collect
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4. Conduct the
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5. Shoot your reporter (stand-UP)
-should have good idea what story is about.
-Should provide info. audience doesn't know.
-transistion from one location to the next.
6. Organize your sound bytes
-What quotes should I use?
-how can i organize the quotes to become a story teller.
-What are my golden nuggets.
7. Write segues in your story.
-Use words that tie the interviews together.
-can story stand on its own?
-what info can i add to story?
8. Write the and of your story.
-Write body first
-best sound bytes for beginning and the end
-leave them with hope.
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 ____________________.