6—This Week in NewsHounds Online (Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2009)
Read . . . . . . . . . . . .
• Today’s WORD on Journalism (every day)
• Harrower, Ch. 4, “Reporting Basics”
• Read AP Stylebook up to M.
• Yet MORE on leads and focusing the story structure as launched by the first paragraph. Chancellor & Mears’s longer essay on leads takes on this most critical element of newswriting in more detail. Written as a textbook chapter, it is essentially a conversation with two giants of the news business: John Chancellor was one of the first great TV reporters, an NBC correspondent and anchor who died in 1996; Walter Mears is the best of Associated Press senior writers. Their discussion of how to get a news story started is wise and smart and practical.
• Read AP Stylebook up to M.
• Yet MORE on leads and focusing the story structure as launched by the first paragraph. Chancellor & Mears’s longer essay on leads takes on this most critical element of newswriting in more detail. Written as a textbook chapter, it is essentially a conversation with two giants of the news business: John Chancellor was one of the first great TV reporters, an NBC correspondent and anchor who died in 1996; Walter Mears is the best of Associated Press senior writers. Their discussion of how to get a news story started is wise and smart and practical.
Exercises . . . . . . . . . File . . . . . . . . . . .
• Participate in Week 6 NewsTalk on Blackboard
• Participate in Week 6 NewsTalk on Blackboard
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