Week 3 – News Story
While we can easily become engaged in a print news story that is well-written and tailored for a specific audience, the ability of television to “show us” the news is something that has given it the edge over print news media for decades. Traditional radio also provides us with the “storytelling” aspect where we may find ourselves sitting in the car hanging on to every word of a great news story. This week, you will write a broadcast script for a television news story and for a radio news story. The television script and the radio script will both be designed for the delivery of a story that is 5 minutes in length.
Topic and Sources of Information: The issue that you choose to write about must be current and have some relevance for your local community, city, and/or state. You must derive the information for this story from print media only. You will need to read several print publications for mention of the story and take notes of the facts of the story from several national publications.
For this assignment you must:
Saving Your Work: To maintain the formatting of your work, you are strongly encouraged to save your assignment as a PDF file. View Saving a Word Document as a PDF for steps on how to do this.
Check it! Your print news stories must be submitted through Grammarly and Turnitin prior to submission.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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Inthis column, insertnumberofsecondsor minutes for each vision/audio portion of the story. |
Inthis column,describe the images (piecesofvideo) thatbest representtheaudio onthe right handside. You will indicate whether they are graphics, video, of if you will be onscreen delivering the story. Remember that everything here must align to the time frame on the left and the audio on the right. Each visual element should be included in a separate gray area of the template. |
Inthis column you will adapt the written story to be broadcast. Keep in mind that some of the language will need to be modified from the written story to go with the visual elements that come along with video and to fit the time frame. If there will be audio that goes along with the video where you will not be speaking, be sure to describe that here. So, if you are speaking you indicated reporter. |
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Graphic · Image of a chart that details the number of farmers in the United States
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Reporter · According to a recent report, number of farm families in the United States is on the rise. What we find most surprising is the young age of farmers. |
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Reporter · Tonight we will introduce you to two young farmers who are breaking ground in the industry. |
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View Waypoint markup for Seeing_Is_Believing.edited.pdf
The following files have been attached to your feedback Cynthia, Please review this week’s assignment instructions again. You were supposed to write a television and radio script with the templates provided in the assignment link. Please let me know when you have resubmitted the assignments. AD (0 / 1.5) Summarizes Facts or Statistics That Are Relevant to the Story, and Develops the Story for the Local Audience
(0 / 1) Compares Two Opposing Opinions about the Topic
(0 / 0.75) Incorporates at Least Three Visual Elements
(0 / 0.75) Incorporates at Least Three Indirect Quotes (Citing Other Sources)
(0 / 1) Adheres to the Television and Radio Broadcast Script Templates
(0 / 1) Written Communication: Control of Syntax and Mechanics
(0 / 1) Written Communication: AP Formatting
(0 / 1) Written Communication: Resource Requirement
Overall Score: 0 / 8 |
Instructions: List each of the news media sources that you used for information in writing your own story. Each of the sources you used should be listed as in the examples below. Follow the assignment instructions for what sources you may consult. Add as many entries as you need and delete those entries that do not apply to the assignment instructions.
BROADCAST MEDIA
Name of the Station: WTTM
Name of the Program: 5 AM Moring News
Name of the Reporter: Taylor Moore
Date: The date of the broadcast
PRINT MEDIA
Name of the Publication: Clarion-Ledger
Section of the Publication: Lifestyle
Title of the Story: Common Core Causes Concern
Reporter: Taylor Moore
Date: The date of the story
DIGITAL MEDIA
Name of the Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Website Address: www.msbusiness.com
Title of the Story: What Common Core Means for Mississippi Businesses
Reporter: Taylor Moore
Date: Thedate of the story
