10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a Topic.
- Relate to your audience
- Has to be news worthy
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2. Find an Angle.
- Break down the topic
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3. Collect Information/Data.
- Who, What,
- Where, When
- Why, and sometimes how


4. Conduct the Interviews.
- Rule of three's. Interview 3 people
- Minimum of 9 questions.  3 Questions each, 3 people 
- Interview the experts/older experience people 


5. Shoot your reporter Stand up .
- Will always be on camera 
- The stand up should appear in middle of story, location, 
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6. Organize your Sound bites.
- Is a piece of audio that can stand on its own 
- Open ended questions 
- 3 sound bites from each person


7. Write Transitions in your story.
- Write stuff between the interviews. 
- Put the voice between the interviews.
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8. Write the Opening and Closing of your story.
- Write the middle first. Go back to the opening if you cant think of the opening. 
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9. Write the anchor In and out (if necessary).
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10. Collect B/ Roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
-Broadcasting touch/ or footage
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A/ROLL.
- All the A/roll goes first then the b/ roll
A-Roll captures the main subject
B-Roll footage of what the person is talking about.