If you’re in the early stages of integrating video into your program, this session will teach you the fundamentals with regard to equipment and curriculum.You will come
away with a plan to develop strong expectations for your students and realizable goals for yourself.
3. What do you want to be?
• Full broadcast class?
• Morning announcements – everyday? Once a week? Twice a
week?
• TV studio – do you have one? Do you want to make one?
Where do the funds come from?
• Adding raw video to print stories? Mobile journalism?
• TV Magazine show?
• Weekly show?
• Bi-monthly show?
• Monthly show?
• Multimedia short news packages as often as possible?
• Only online distribution? Who hosts your online publications
now? How do they manage video?
• Closed Circuit or Cable Access TV? – do you have a local
channel that will air your students’ work? If so, how often?
• Longer format documentaries or film? – are you interested in
building past simple news packages?
4. Mission/Ethics
• Will your program have a
mission statement?
• What will your ethics policy
be?
• What will you stand for?
28. End result
• People speak positively
about program
• Rarely turned down for
interviews
• Learn more than
broadcast journalism, they
learn life skills
31. JEADigitalmedia.org
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Blog post:
Factors to consider when
starting a Broadcast Journalism program
Don Goble
Ladue Horton Watkins High School
dgoble@ladueschools.net
@dgoble2001
LHS-TV & Films website