For this week, we will:
- Learn about best practices in pitching a news story
- Learn tips and tricks in organizing the information in your traditional news story
- Personality Profile (Written Assignment #1) due Friday, Feb. 5
- Prepare three news story ideas
- We will decide the story topic based on your pitch to the class. This will be the focus of your second writing assignment (draft due Friday, Feb. 19).
- Read the following chapters:
- 2: Selecting and Reporting the News
- 7: Basic News Leads
- 9: The Body of a News Story
- 10: Quotations and Attributions
- 11: Interviewing
- 17: Feature Writing
