Aug. 26 - Journalism

For Ira Glass on Storytelling Part 1, click here.

Making Local stories global click here

Click here for pitching a story (from the Associated Press)

Joanna Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

May 7 - Assignment (20 pts.)

Look over the breaking news. Check out The New York Times or The Washington Post today.

Write up at least three ideas of national news stories that could have local news applicability.

For example:

Cricket "My First Gun" story about the five-year-old shooting his two-year-old sibling. What are the attitudes of your peers at JFK about teaching children about guns? Is it in their training? Do they have rural cousins who have guns? Is it a good thing or bad thing to learn about guns? Clearly, the example of the five-year-old is extreme, but it does give you a beginning to ask around and develop a story.

So that is what I mean. Look for three national stories and think of what story angle you could do with it.

Write these three things up for me in well-developed paragraphs (one for each story). Defend your choices.

Reminder: Tomorrow, PBS will be here.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.