This document outlines the topics and assignments for a journalism class on reporting and writing for TV and radio. It discusses transforming a package into a profile story, focusing on important elements like highs/lows and future when writing profiles. It also covers the most important things to focus on for broadcast stories about meetings and speeches, like finding the drama, impact, and notable aspects rather than mundane details. Students are assigned to write a script for a Jill Biden speech video and read about writing news conferences.

1. JOU 2312
REPORTING AND WRITING
FOR TV AND RADIO
Professor Michael Rizzo
Director, Journalism Program
Division of Mass Communication
Collins College of Professional Studies
Presentation for October 29, 2020

2. LAST CLASS – OCTOBER 26
PROFILES
JOU 2312
REPORTING AND WRITING
FOR TV AND RADIO

3. TODAY
TURNING SHERRELL WHITMIRE PKG
INTO A PROFILE STORY
BEGIN CHAPTER 18
JOU 2312
REPORTING AND WRITING
FOR TV AND RADIO

4. RECAP
BE PRECISE WHEN PRODUCING STORIES:
VO-SOTS START WITH A VO
SOT-VOS START WITH A SOT
THE G-O-A-Ls METHOD OF PROFILE STORIES:
FOCUS ON HIGHS / LOWS, THE PERSON’S
PATH TO NEWSWORTHINESS AND THE
FUTURE
MAKE YOUR PROFILE PERSON MEMORABLE
THROUGH GREAT INTERVIEWS AND
REVEALING INFORMATION

5. HOW DID YOU TRANSFORM THE SCRIPT
OF YOUR N-Y-P-D EAST NEW YORK
COMMUNITY CENTER PKG INTO A
SHERRELL WHITMIRE PROFILE?

6. WE WILL RETURN TO THIS PROJECT
SO SAVE YOUR REVISED SCRIPT
YOU WILL BE SOON BE PRODUCING A
FULL REPORTER PKG WITH
VISUALS/VIDEO, SOTs AND YOUR
TRACK AS EITHER AN N-Y-P-D EAST
NEW YORK COMMUNITY CENTER
FOCUSED STORY OR A SHERRELL
WHITMIRE PROFILE

7. CHAPTER 18
SPEECHES, NEWS CONFERENCES AND
MEETINGS

8. THERE ARE GOOD WAYS AND BORING
WAYS TO REPORT ON SPEECHES, NEWS
CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE MOST
IMPORTANT THINGS TO FOCUS
ON WHEN DOING A BROADCAST
STORY ON A MEETING?

9. NOT
JUST THE AGENDA
NOT
THE MUNDANE ASPECTS
NOT
EVERYTHING THAT WAS SAID OR DONE

10. FIND AND FOCUS ON
THE DRAMA
FIND AND FOCUS ON
THE MOST IMPACTFUL ASPECT OF
THE MEETING
LEAD WITH
THE VIDEO AND/OR SOUND OF THE
MEETING THAT WILL GRAB THE
AUDIENCE’S ATTENTION

11. DO NOT MAKE THE
FOLLOWING SCRIPT
YOUR KIND OF LEAD:

12. THE FORTY-FIRST
ANNUAL NATIONAL
ECOLOGICAL
ENGINEERING
CONFERENCE MET
YESTERDAY AT THE
KANSAS UNION.
THEY DISCUSSED
SOLUTIONS TO
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROBLEMS.
W/S of meeting
Meeting coming
to order
Graphic of agenda

13. TELL THIS STORY
THE RESULT OF THE MEETING THAT
PEOPLE WOULD CARE ABOUT

15. WRITING IT RIGHT STILL COUNTS:
BOARD IS A COLLECTIVE NOUN AND
TAKES A SINGULAR VERB
(THE BOARD IS NOT ARE)
WRITE IN CONVERSATIONAL AND
PROPER BROADCAST STYLE:
MAYOR JOHN SMITH

16. WHAT ABOUT COVERING SPEECHES?
WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE MOST
IMPORTANT THINGS TO FOCUS
ON WHEN DOING A BROADCAST
STORY ON A SPEECH?

17. THE MOST IMPACTFUL
THE MOST NEWSWORTHY
THE MOST NOTABLE ASPECT OF
WHAT WAS SAID

18. BUT DO GIVE FACTS ON WHAT
IS SEEN
• THE SIZE OF THE AUDIENCE
• THE LOCATION
• THE REASON FOR THE SPEECH
• OTHER COMMENTS MADE IN THE
SPEECH
• THE REACTION OF THE AUDIENCE

19. June 12, 1987

22. FOR MONDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2020
WATCH THE JILL BIDEN SPEECH VIDEO ON
BLACKBOARD
USE THE STORY FACTS TO WRITE A 1:15
REPORTER PKG SCRIPT ON THE SPEECH
USE THE TWO COLUMN TV NEWS SCRIPT
FOLLOW THE PROPER FORMAT FOR
WRITING A SCRIPT
DESCRIBE THE VIDEO IN THE ORDER YOU
WOULD SHOW IT IN THE LEFT COLUMN
-MORE

23. FOR MONDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2020
READ PAGES 354-356 IN CHAPTER 18
ABOUT NEWS CONFERENCES
BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS AND APPLY
THE CONCEPTS IN THE TEXT DURING
OUR CLASS SESSION
CONTINUING COURSE OUTLINE:
ALSO READ HANDOUT MATERIAL ON
ETHICS

24. STAY WELL
AND
STAY SAFE