Week 7: CyberHounds

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7—This Week in NewsHounds Online

(Oct. 4-10, 2009)

Read . . . . . . . . . . . .

• Today’s WORD on Journalism (every day)

• Harrower, Ch. 5 “Covering the News”
• AP Stylebook through Q.

• More on Nut Grafs
• FAIR WARNING: Midterm Exam next week! Details to follow via BB email.

Exercises . . . . . . . . .

• Covering a Speech: On Harrower p. 110, do the Test Yourself exercise No. 2—Covering Michael Gartner’s speech. The text of the speech is on p. 280. Write the story as if you covered it today and the story will appear in The Statesman (so for a student audience) the next day. The speech was in the TSC Ballroom, sponsored by the JCOM Department’s Media & Society Lecture Series. Gartner is a real guy (and a friend of mine, so don’t screw this up!), and this is a real speech with real (and good) advice for journalists. You don’t need to—you can’t!—include everything from the speech transcript—focus on, summarize and build your story around what you consider Gartner’s main points/themes, pick out some of the best quotes (see this useful discussion in Harrower Ch. 4), organize in either the standard inverted pyramid order, or see if you can use the “Martini Glass” structure (Harrower, p. 48), which reserves a nice twist or your second-best quote for the “walk-off” at the end of the story. This story is due to me as a BB email attachment by Friday noon.

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• Participate in Week 7 NewsTalk on Blackboard

• NewsQuiz Click here for directions.
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