Here I leave you a brief tutorial that explains in a few steps the three things you should customize in the personal WordPress blog you will be using for my class.
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Below you can find a video tutorial that tells you step by step how to register to our weekly magazine www.ithacaweek.com
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Ok, here’s a graphic with the most basic elements of an inverted pyramid.
The classic "inverted pyramid" and its three main elements.
In Just the Facts David Mindich argues that the style was invented not by journalists, but by Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton. To validate this claim, Mindich studied several newspapers during the period between the 1840s, 1850s and 1860s, and found that the first clear example of inverted pyramid was Stanton’s announcement of Lincoln’s death, wired unedited by the A.P.
The dispatch read as follows:
Washington, April 14, 1865
To the Associated Press:
The President was shot in a theatre tonight and perhaps mortally wounded.
On Chapter 3, page 66 of Just the Facts Mindich explains that “because Stanton’s terse, impersonal dispatches appeared unedited on the front page of newspapers across the Union, he was widely read throughout the war.” So it seems that the most emblematic of all journalistic genres was not created by a journalist, but by a very efficient P.R. person.
I find Gaby Dunn’s story fascinating. A journalism graduate trying to find a job in the middle of the worst recession since the 1930s. Nobody is hiring, so she decides to do what she knows best: find 100 stories she would love to write but she would not be able to place. She wants to write them all in the course of 12 months.
Gaby Dunn's "100 Interviews."
The idea may seem basic, but some of the stories (A horror makeup artist. A hardcore skateboarder. A one-hit wonder. A rocket scientist. A teen mom. Someone who was left at the altar) are deeply moving, even fascinating. Eleven months into her project, she’s almost finished.
Would you have done anything differently?
I found these tutorials in Youtube that offer a step-by-step approach on how to better use your Zoom recorders. They were produced by www.proAudioDVDs.com. If you go to ProAudioDVD’s, their Youtube channel, and search for “H4n” you will find several other videos that deal with different issues, from mic set up to multitrack recording.
This video below shows you how to choose and set up a recording format, something you will need to know before you start recording interviews.
Bruce Porter CU’62 and author of “Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All”
1. Just the facts. Report what you’ve learned firsthand. Attribute to others anything you didn’t see or hear yourself. Avoid going with rumors or assumptions. And beware of describing people that reflect your bias.
2. Be accurate. Always distrust your ears; double check spellings of names; get ages and addresses right. When in doubt, leave it out.
3. Use exact quotes. In quoting people, put down exactly what they say, even if it sounds awkward. If in the beginning you can’t write fast enough to get the whole thing, limit yourself to phrases you know are correct.
4. Do not plagiarize. Never present another reporter’s work as your own. And in your class assignments do not “double dip.” Never present the same piece of work to two different classes without clearing it with the instructors.
5. Do not fabricate or approximate the details of a story you could not verify yourself. Transgress either Rule 4 or 5 and you will fail this class.
6. Be fair. This means calling around to get all sides of a story, taking special care to give representation to people with whom you disagree.
7. Honor all deadlines. If you can’t complete the story on time, go with what you’ve got.
8. Make all copy conform to the AP Stylebook.
9. Keep up on the news.
10. Out on assignment, use your imagination; do not follow the pack. Always try to seek out your own sources and strive to develop angles other reporters have not thought to pursue.