Question 1
You will write a summary news lead about one of the public community government meetings that you will watch from the list below
Meeting Story Exercise Video #1
Frederick County, Md., Historic Preservation Commission meeting Sept. 7, 2016
https://frederickcountymd.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFi…
(agenda)http://frederick.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view…
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #2
City of Alexandria, Va., Planning Commission meeting Feb. 3, 2015
http://media-07.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/alexandr… bad7-
489e-ae4e-ed4632824811.mp4(video)
http://media-07.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/alexandria/alexandria_136b9352-bad7-489e-ae4e-ed4632824811.mp3(audio)
Meeting Story Exercise Video # 3
City of San Diego Council meeting Sept. 27, 2016
http://granicus.sandiego.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6790(video)
http://granicus.sandiego.gov/TranscriptViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6790(captioning)
http://media-11.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/sandiego/sandiego_eee1aeb9-e623-48e491c3-ce9be2c278f0.mp4(mp4)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #4
City of Columbia, S.C., Council meeting Sept. 6, 2016
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #5
City of Kent, Washington, City
Council meeting Dec. 13, 2016
http://kentwa.iqm2.com/Citizens/SplitView.aspx?Mod…
4&MinutesID
=2718&FileFormat=pdf&Format=Minutes&MediaFileFormat=ismv
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #6
Hillsborough County, Fla., School Board meeting Feb. 7, 2017
http://schoolboard.hcpswebcasts.com/
Your news lead must:
- Be one complete sentence of no more than 20 word.
- Use only active voice verbs in past tense.
- Reflect the most important detail about what happened at the meeting.
- Answer the question who-did-what-when? in that order.
- Include a time element in the form of a day of the week.
- Avoid using a name.
Question 2
you are to write the body of a 700word meeting news story based on the same meeting video that you used from this list
Meeting Story Exercise Video #1
Frederick County, Md., Historic Preservation Commission meeting Sept. 7, 2016
https://frederickcountymd.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFi…
(agenda)http://frederick.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view…
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #2
City of Alexandria, Va., Planning Commission meeting Feb. 3, 2015
http://media-07.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/alexandr… bad7-
489e-ae4e-ed4632824811.mp4(video)
http://media-07.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/alexandria/alexandria_136b9352-bad7-489e-ae4e-ed4632824811.mp3(audio)
Meeting Story Exercise Video # 3
City of San Diego Council meeting Sept. 27, 2016
http://granicus.sandiego.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6790(video)
http://granicus.sandiego.gov/TranscriptViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6790(captioning)
http://media-11.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/sandiego/sandiego_eee1aeb9-e623-48e491c3-ce9be2c278f0.mp4(mp4)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #4
City of Columbia, S.C., Council meeting Sept. 6, 2016
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #5
City of Kent, Washington, City
Council meeting Dec. 13, 2016
http://kentwa.iqm2.com/Citizens/SplitView.aspx?Mod…
4&MinutesID
=2718&FileFormat=pdf&Format=Minutes&MediaFileFormat=ismv
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #6
Hillsborough County, Fla., School Board meeting Feb. 7, 2017
http://schoolboard.hcpswebcasts.com/
(video
This exercise is designed to give you practice in writing a summary news story about a meeting story like the one you will complete for your final project. You are to synthesize the facts in one of these scenarios and write a summary news story in inverted pyramid style.
Question 3
you are to conduct an interview or interviews and write a 450word news feature story in inverted pyramid style that can serve as a sidebar to the meeting you wrote about for Story 2 based on one the videos select from the list
Meeting Story Exercise Video #1
Frederick County, Md., Historic Preservation Commission meeting Sept. 7, 2016
https://frederickcountymd.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFi…
(agenda)http://frederick.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view…
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #2
City of Alexandria, Va., Planning Commission meeting Feb. 3, 2015
http://media-07.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/alexandr… bad7-
489e-ae4e-ed4632824811.mp4(video)
http://media-07.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/alexandria/alexandria_136b9352-bad7-489e-ae4e-ed4632824811.mp3(audio)
Meeting Story Exercise Video # 3
City of San Diego Council meeting Sept. 27, 2016
http://granicus.sandiego.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6790(video)
http://granicus.sandiego.gov/TranscriptViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6790(captioning)
http://media-11.granicus.com:443/OnDemand/sandiego/sandiego_eee1aeb9-e623-48e491c3-ce9be2c278f0.mp4(mp4)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #4
City of Columbia, S.C., Council meeting Sept. 6, 2016
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #5
City of Kent, Washington, City
Council meeting Dec. 13, 2016
http://kentwa.iqm2.com/Citizens/SplitView.aspx?Mod…
4&MinutesID
=2718&FileFormat=pdf&Format=Minutes&MediaFileFormat=ismv
(video)
Meeting Story Exercise Video #6
Hillsborough County, Fla., School Board meeting Feb. 7, 2017
http://schoolboard.hcpswebcasts.com/
Question 4
Please submit a single attachment that contains all three of the following elements of this project:
1. Your revised and finalized meeting story of 500-700 word, with multiple embedded hyperlinks.
2. Your revised and finalized interview news feature sidebar story of 350 words, with multiple embedded hyperlinks.
3. At least one additional enhancement for online readers, such as a Twitter alert teasing the story’s content, suggestions for an interactive Q&A with people featured in the story, a discussion question with the reporter (you!), an audio clip from an interview you did, a video clip from the meeting, etc., which could be included with the package to engage the readers about the story. The overall package should contain multiple embedded hyperlinks plus at least one other interactive, multimedia, or social media enhancement.