10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a Topic-
-Whats your story about?
-Who is your audience?
-Why is the story important to your audience?

2. Find an Angle-
-What is your topic about?
-More specifially, what is important about your topic?

3. Collect ________________.
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4. Conduct the Interview -
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5. Shoot your reporter Stand Up-
-Should have a good ideas what story is about.
-Stand-up should provide information that audience doesn't know.
-Use stand-up for transition from one location to the next.
-No first person "I Went"
-In MIDDLE of story.

6. Organize your sound bytes.
-What quotes should I use?
-How can I organize the quotes to tell a story?
-What are my golden nuggets?

7. Write segues in your story.
-Use words that tie the interviews together.
-What other information can I add to the story?
-Can the story stand on its own?

8. Write the Beginning and End of your story.
-Write body first.
-Best sound bytes for beginning and end.
-Paraphrase a sound byte at the beginning.
-Leave them with strongest sound byte at end.
-Leave them with hope.

9. Write the anchor ______________ and ________________ (if necessary).
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10. Collect ___________ to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the ____________________.