Week 3 - News Story Seeing is Believing 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: Adhere to the  Broadcast Script Template Summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story Develop the story for the local audience Compare two opposing opinions about the topic Provide proper attribution for all sources of information included (facts, statistics, images/video, and opinions). Incorporate at least three visual elements to enhance the television story Incorporate at least three indirect quotes (citing other sources) to enhance the radio story A list of each of the sources must be included using the  Media News Source Template 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. Week 2 - Editing Exercise Accuracy, Clarity, Brevity Read Chapter 3 and 4 in  The Complete Editor . The complete  Exercise 4.10 . Rewrite the story in a Word document. For this assignment you must: Format sentences, expressions, and words according to AP style Use correct grammar Use correct spelling Use correct punctation Carefully review the  Grading Rubric  for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment. Week 3 - Editing Exercise Headlines and Summaries Read Chapter 6 in  The Complete Editor . Then complete  Exercise 6.5  and  Exercise 6.12 . Label each of the exercises and include them in one Word document. For Exercise 6.5 you must: Include the headlines alongside the rewritten headlines Follow the principles of writing headlines (logic, specificity, word precision, avoid double meanings) For Exercise 6.12 Identify the approach used for each summary Format sentences, expressions, and words according to AP style Use co.

1. Week 3 - News Story
Seeing is Believing
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:
Adhere to the
Broadcast Script Template
Summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story
Develop the story for the local audience
Compare two opposing opinions about the topic
Provide proper attribution for all sources of information
included (facts, statistics, images/video, and opinions).
Incorporate at least three visual elements to enhance the
television story
Incorporate at least three indirect quotes (citing other sources)
to enhance the radio story
A list of each of the sources must be included using the
Media News Source Template
Saving Your Work:

2. 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.
Week 2 - Editing Exercise
Accuracy, Clarity, Brevity
Read Chapter 3 and 4 in
The Complete Editor
. The complete
Exercise 4.10
. Rewrite the story in a Word document.
For this assignment you must:
Format sentences, expressions, and words according to AP style
Use correct grammar
Use correct spelling
Use correct punctation
Carefully review the
Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Week 3 - Editing Exercise
Headlines and Summaries
Read Chapter 6 in
The Complete Editor
. Then complete
Exercise 6.5
and
Exercise 6.12
. Label each of the exercises and include them in one Word

3. document.
For Exercise 6.5 you must:
Include the headlines alongside the rewritten headlines
Follow the principles of writing headlines (logic, specificity,
word precision, avoid double meanings)
For Exercise 6.12
Identify the approach used for each summary
Format sentences, expressions, and words according to AP style
Use correct grammar
Use correct spelling
Use correct punctuation
Discussion
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and
you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates.
Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and
the depth of your responses.
Digitized News
Prepare:
It is befitting that we discuss writing for digital media after we
have explored print and broadcast media because the Internet
has given us the capability of converging those two forms of
traditional media. In Chapter 7 of
Writing for the Mass Media
, Stovall (2014) states, “The Web is like broadcasting and
newspapers, but it is also something quite different. Although it
shares many of the characteristics of other media, it has
qualities that make it unique. Those qualities are immediacy,
flexibility, permanency, capacity, and interactivity.” Read
Chapter 7 and explore all of these qualities about news on the
Web.
Reflect:
Take a moment to surf the web for news on at least four digital
news media platforms. Consider what you see in relation to the
five qualities that Stovall (2014) discusses in the reading. How

4. well are those qualities demonstrated on the sites that you
explore?
Write:
Choose two of the sites that you explored and write a 250- to
300-word response that discusses at least two of the five
qualities of digital news media. In your initial post, you must
include at least one in-text citation from the reading material
and an additional in-text citation from a scholarly source that
you locate in the Ashford University Library or from another
credible source. At the end of your post, include your name and
a full reference for all sources cited in the body of your post.
All citations and references must adhere to APA style
guidelines as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center
.
Check it!
Your post must be submitted through Grammarly and Turnitin
prior to submission.
Respond to Peers:
After you have written your initial post, read the posts of your
peers and respond to at least two others about their experiences
exploring digital news media. Your responses should address
them by name, be between 100 and 150 words in length, and
you must include your name at the end of each response.
Editing Exercise
News Story
“Click Here”
The impact of digital media on news coverage and delivery is
undeniable. Many of us have our news delivered directly to us
via our laptops or smartphones. The greatest draw of digital
media is getting everything in one place with the ability to be
selective about what you get and when you get it. Digital media
is what makes convergence a reality.

5. For this assignment, you will write a story for a digital media
platform tailored to your local community. You will also create
two social media feeds for Facebook and Twitter that brings
attention to the story that is on the digital media platform. The
length of the actual story for the platform must be at least 350
words for each story.
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 may derive the information for this story from
print or broadcast media only
. You will need to access several print publications and
broadcast new programs-- including radio and television-- and
take notes of the facts of the story.
For this assignment you must:
Adhere to the
Digital News Publications Template
Adhere to AP style
Create an engaging headline for the story and for the social
media posts
Write the story according to the Inverted Pyramid
Summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story
Develop the story for the local audience
Compare two opposing opinions about the topic
Provide proper attribution for all sources of information
included (facts, statistics, images/video, and opinions).
Incorporate visual elements to enhance the story and the social
media posts
A list of each of the sources must be included using the
Media News Source Template
.
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.

6. 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.
and Layout
Read Chapter 9 in
The Complete Editor
. Pay particular attention to Figure 9.4 in examining the various
parts of the page. Then, go back to the Peer Critiques in Week 4
and select two stories in addition to your written story. Use the
Newspaper Template
to layout and design the front page of the newspaper. While the
paper is in columns, you can easily create headlines across the
page or in a small section as demonstrated in Figure 9.4.
For this assignment you must:
Create a visually appealing front page
Rewrite the headlines for each story
Include bylines for each of the stories
Include a headshot of yourself for
your
story
Incorporate a picture or infographic for
one
of your peers’ stories
Include a pull quote for
one
of your peers’ stories
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.

7. Carefully review the
Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Carefully review the
Discussion Forum Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion
Thread.
Peer Critique
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and
you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates.
Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and
the depth of your responses.
Peer Print Story Critique
Prepare:
Part of being a journalist is about putting your work on display,
and in today’s media, dealing with the feedback that comes
along with it. For this assignment, you will post your Week 2
print story after you have made corrections based on your
instructor’s comments. View the Formatting Stories and Blogs
for assistance with formatting your story.
Reflect:
(Person Giving Feedback) In reading the stories of your peers,
you will consider the following five elements for critiquing the
story. To refresh your memory about what to look for, review
Chapter One in
The Complete Editor
.
The Lead
Story Structure
Completeness
Style

8. Objectivity
Write:
After reading two of your peers’ stories, write a 250- to 300-
word critique on the articles they presented. Be sure to mention
aspects of the story that were engaging as well as those things
you believe could have been improved.
Carefully review the
Discussion Forum Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion
Thread.