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Mastering TV Reporting: Newsgathering, Writing, and Story Production Essentials

This comprehensive guide explores the essentials of TV reporting, covering newsgathering, writing, and story production techniques. Discover various sources of news including wire services, the internet, and traditional media. Learn about the elements of news such as timeliness, proximity, and human interest, as well as different types of news like hard, soft, investigative, and feature pieces. Understand the ethical and legal concerns journalists face, and develop skills in producing compelling news packages that engage viewers through effective writing and multimedia storytelling.

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Mastering TV Reporting: Newsgathering, Writing, and Story Production Essentials

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  1. Introduction to TV Reporting Newsgathering, writing and story production

  2. Newsgathering • Sources of News • Wire, other media, what about the Internet? • Beats, beat check, futures file, furnished • Staff reporters, stringers, tips • Elements of News • Timeliness, proximity, prominence, conflict, human interest • Types of news • Hard, soft, investigative, features #

  3. Newsgathering • How do you collect news information? • Interviews – facts and sound bites • From whom do you collect information? • Experts, those involved, people once removed, MOS • Bias, gatekeeping, and personal agendas • Legal concerns • Recording conversations, libel, privacy, trespass, police interference • Ethical concerns • Personal versus organizational • Get the story at any expense? • Where do you draw the line? • Social responsibility or libertarian? #

  4. Newsgathering • Libel • About, published, damage, negligence, actual malice • Tort law • Two things it cost the media • Lose case / win appeal • Lawsuit process • Privacy • Appropriation, private facts, intrusion, false light • Trespassing • Civil and criminal • Apparent authority • Limited invitation • ‘Lawful orders’

  5. Writing • Tell what you know and what you don’t know • Who, what, when, where, why, how • And the ‘So what?’ • Conversational • Active voice, present tense verbs; write as people talk—contractions, word choices • Personal • ‘you’ ; relationship to people’s lives • Sensationalism? versus creative wording • Practice conserving words • Write to the pictures in TV – nat sound use #

  6. TV News Stories • Reader • VO • Vo-Sot, VO-bite, VSV, reader-sot, etc. • Package • B-roll --2-shots, reactions shots, cutaways, cut-ins, sequences • voice overs, stand ups, sound bites • Length and content of segments #

  7. Producing a VO • Anchor on camera lead? • Length of story? • Length of shots? • Nat sound on b-roll • Matching pictures to VO • Pad at the end #

  8. Producing a VO-SOT • Anchor on camera? • Length of VO • Rolling sound bite -- one tape or A/B • SB length and content • VO after sound bite • Reader bite / VSV / Reader bite VO • Pad on tape 1 and tape 2 • Pad if anchor follows SB • No reporter on these #

  9. Producing a package • Reporter VO after anchor lead-in • VO / SB / VO / SU / VO / 2-shot / VO • Length of VO segments • Length of sound bites • Number of sound bites • Writing to the picture, not chronological • Length of the package #

  10. Live Shot Basics • People involved • Feed to station • Live truck safety • VO / VO-SOT / PKG. • Scene scan, live interview • Sony Sandwich • Anchor debrief • Reasons, and over use #

  11. Handling New Media • Staff at TV station (options) • Mobile media • Lifestyles today – ‘Info-snacking’ • Web sites – newspaper and video • Citizen ‘Journalists’ / Rocketboom, YouTube • Interactive News Story • Bloggers, Newspapers, Profits issues ###

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