Goal for staff: Make each day your masterpiece. You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be.

Goal for editors & advisor: Define success for those under your leadership as total commitment and effort to the team's welfare. Then show it yourself with your own effort and performance. Most of those you lead will do the same. Those who don't should be encouraged to look for a new team. — John Wooden

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Day 2: Interviewing & a profile


  • Review of homework. What's the importance of figuring out the news value BEFORE the writing process?
  • Let's learn about interviewing!
    • Katie Couric on a good interview
      • Take aways ....
    • What to use for an interview
      • In person
      • Skype/FaceTime
      • Phone
    • How to capture the interview
      • Audio recording
      • Video recording
      • Think about how you want to use the interview in your article. Always better to have more material and in few formats.
    • Planning the interview
      • How NOT to plan
      • Questions to ask yourself: What do I know about my story? Who will best serve as sources for my story?
      • What preliminary research is needed?
      • How to plan
    • Developing Questions
      • Consider the 5 Ws and H
      • Make sure your questions allow you to get detailed responses
      • Open-ended questions are essential
      • Have a long list of prepared questions, but be prepared to listen!
    • The Interview
      • Always let your source know BEFOREHAND that you will be recording the interview.
      • Start informally and then move onto larger topics.
      • Rephrase questions for clarification. It's ok to make sure you get it right.
      • Be ready to answer follow-up questions
      • Always ask -- is there anything else you'd like to add?
    • Post-interview
      • Transcribe the interview accurately.
  • Your assignment: interview a classmate for a profile piece. Piece must be 500-700 words long, and it must include a minimum of three sources (one of which is your classmate).
Editors work on assignment calendar, and a few other things.

Partners:
Matt & Holland
Paul & Maddy
Julia & Bryn
Juliet & Sarah
Adriana & Georgia

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Semester 1 Begins: Fall 2014!

  1. What we do in this class
  2. How we do it
    1. Editors: Sarah, Philip, Henry
  3. Review of course expectations:
    1. communication (make sure you keep your emails to people professional and your communication with editors/advisor abundant)
    2. interviews (in-person, FaceTime, phone --> all ok. EMAIL IS NOT OK!)
    3. graphics (every article needs a graphic, as does every brief.)
  4. Timeline of article due dates & briefs: first class of week article draft (4 in total this semester); second class of week brief (14 in total this semester); third class of each week is bonus day!
  5. Senior speech recording schedule ... the first few scheduled
    1. Philip: Tue 9/2
    2. Sara: Thu 9/4
    3. Henry: Wed 9/10
    4. Holland: Fri 9/12
  6. iPads & apps for iPhone --> recording app (VoiceRecord Pro, twisted wave, soundcloud)
  7. Important email to know: themavoice@gmail.com (share all google docs and drafts with this email account)
  8. Our newspaper website: mavoice.org (upload all briefs and final articles to this website -- more details to follow)
  9. Our class blog: themavoice.blogspot.com
  10. News judgment
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