Fall 2020 JOU 1000 17th Class and First Class Presentation for week of October 19, 2020

1. JOU 1000
Introduction to
Journalism
Professor Michael Rizzo
Director, Journalism Program
Division of Mass Communication
Collins College of Professional Studies
First Presentation for week of Oct. 19, 2020

2. JOU 1000
Introduction to
Journalism
Last class
Chapter 2

3. JOU 1000
Introduction to
Journalism
Today
Writing for broadcast news

4. RECAP
Truth in journalism needs not just facts but
context and perspectives from all sides in
a story.
Journalism of Verification serves the news
consumer best and reflects the best of
journalism ethics.
Provide the answer to “why should I believe
this?” to news consumers for every story.
Speed and inserting commentary into news
reporting are pressures modern journalism
faces.

5. Television and radio journalism, broadcast news,
deliver live and recorded story coverage that
brings audience to the scene of a news story as
it happens or shortly after it happens.

6. Broadcast news is about a news
anchor or reporter having a
conversation with the audience
and using THEIR VOICE and/or
SOUNDS (for radio) or THEIR
VOICE, THEM ON-SCREEN, VIDEO
AND OTHER VISUALS and/or
SOUND (for television) to tell
a story.

7. Broadcast News:
• Conveys the now
• Is often written in the present tense
but only when the using the
present tense sounds right when
reporting the story

8. Broadcast News:
• In TV, the written/spoken word
complements, meaning it adds to,
what’s seen in the news report
• Brings viewers/listeners to the
scene of the story either live
or with video/visuals that show
what the story looked like while
the anchor/reporter tell the
audience the facts

9. Checklist for Broadcast Writing
• Does my writing convey immediacy?
• If my story is about something
today, did I use "today" in the lead?
• Am I leading with the latest fact(s)?
• Are my sentences short, one fact
sentences?

10. • Do I write “tight?” meaning I am
writing concisely?
• Have I replaced adjectives which
convey subjectivity with details
and detailed descriptions which
convey facts?
• Have I used familiar words and not
technical terms most people
don’t understand?

11. • Have I written my sentences in
conversational style but also
with professionalism and not
slang or too casual language?
• Have I used the sounds of words
to attract the audience to pay
attention to and be engaged in
my reporting?

12. • Did I avoid phrases like "the
former“ and "the latter“?
• Have I written hard-to-understand
concepts into explanations that
are easy-to-understand?
• Have I avoided statistics and
numbers that can confuse
audiences?

13. THIS IS THE TV NEWS TWO COLUMN SCRIPT

14. THIS IS THE SCRIPT WITH REMINDERS OF
WHAT TO DO IN EACH COLUMN

15. THIS HAS BEEN ADDED TO BLACKBOARD AS A
WORD DOCUMENT SO YOU USE IT TO
COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS.

16. REMEMBER: REMOVE WHAT IT SAYS TO
REMOVE WHEN WRITING YOUR NEW SCRIPT
IN THE TEMPLATE.

17. BROADCAST NEWS SCRIPTS ARE
WRITTEN IN CAPS FOR WHATEVER
THE REPORTER OR NEWS ANCHOR
WILL SAY ON THE AIR AND THE
SCRIPT IS WRITTEN ON THE RIGHT
SIDE OF THE TWO COLUMN TV
NEWS SCRIPT

18. The verbatim of what is said by
someone in a soundbite, which
is the broadcast equivalent of a
quote and when the person
speaking is seen and heard on the
air.
You do not write a verbatim if you
the reporter or anchor, are
reporting and you are saying
what someone else said.

19. The verbatim is written in lowercase
so anyone reading the script will
know not to say that verbatim on
the air.
The verbatim is written in the right
side column too but again:
write the verbatim in lowercase.

20. The left side column is for describing
what video is seen while the words
of the script on the right side are
being spoken.

21. Do NOT abbreviate words in
BROADCAST STYLE – write them
out completely.
Write out numbers – don’t use
numerals. This makes it easy to read
and say the numbers and not
say the numbers incorrectly.

22. Spell out words or names that may be
hard to pronounce PHONETICALLY to
make sure the word is said right.

23. Spell out words or names that may be
hard to pronounce PHONETICALLY
in your script to make sure the word
is said right.
Write it just once by using just the
phonetic spelling.

24. IN NEW YORK, EAST HOUSTON
STREET IS PRONOUNCED
HOW-stun

25. THE CITY WHERE
THE ASTROS WON
THE 2017 WORLD
SERIES IS
PRONOUNCED
HUGH-stun
So remember, spell out words or names that
may be hard to pronounce PHONETICALLY in
your script to make sure the word is said right.

26. If you've used a comma or an ellipsis in
your BROADCAST NEWS WRITING, you're
trying to put too much into one sentence.
Avoid clauses
Avoid sentences with clauses as
seen by commas

27. Wrong for broadcast style:
THE MAN…WHO WAS
A GRADUATE OF
HARVARD, LOVED
CATS.
You have one sentence with two ideas.

28. Better:
THE MAN GRADUATED
FROM HARVARD.
HE LOVED CATS.
Two short sentences each conveying
one fact.

29. Watch this video
This video is posted with the class presentation
on BlackBoard

30. Look at this story information and
and video shot list
This document is posted with this class presentation
on BlackBoard

31. Watch the instructional video below on how I
wrote a news script for the edited video.
This video is posted with the class presentation
on BlackBoard

32. Assignment:
See the video and story information for
the MEXICO FIRE assignment in
BlackBoard.
Write a :30 news script using the Two
Column TV News Script template.
Follow the proper format for your script.
Make sure the words in your script
connect/complement what the video
shows at the time the words are said in
the script.

33. STAY WELL
AND
STAY SAFE