August 4, 2009



USC ANNENBERG SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

Journalism 306 CORE Section 21091

Broadcast News Production

Fall 2012 – Tuesdays 4:00pm – 6:40pm – ASC 329

Jeff Wald

(213) 440-5555 Cell

jeffrey.wald@usc.edu

Office hours: Upon request, depending on my schedule.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course will put together all that you have learned about writing and reporting and turning that knowledge into solid story telling through solid production techniques. You will have plenty of room to express your individual style as long as you follow the basic rules you will learn during this semester. The following will be the techniques to follow:

• Clear conversational writing

• Well composed, compelling video

• Best pictures

• Best sound bites

• Best natural sound

• Good pacing

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The objective by the end of the semester is that Broadcast News Production students will be able to research, pitch, write, report, shoot and edit professional television/web packages with graphics and special effects if appropriate. This class will emphasize reporting the context crucial to more complex stories. By this time, students should have mastered professional interviewing skills to elicit interesting sound bites and shoot interviews in a visually compelling manner. We will also critique your performance in front of the camera utilizing “standups” and voiceover techniques. Students should also have mastered the skills necessary to shoot creative sequences rather than “wallpaper” video. Editing skills on the Avid software should match basic professional standards in a creative and technical manner.

All students, whether interested in reporting, anchoring or producing should have a clear understanding and appreciation of the major role that production plays in reporting video news. Class and homework exercises should emulate or exceed real-world situations to prepare students for the final upper division classes of reporting and/or producing.

RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL TEXTBOOKS

ISBN: 13: 978-0-07-352609-6

Title: Broadcast News Handbook, 4th Edition

Authors: C.A. Tuggle, Forest Carr, Suzanne Huffman

Publisher: MCGraw Hill

ISBN: 13: 978-0030791765

Title: Broadcast News, Third Edition

Author: Mitchell Stephens

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

ISBN: 0205262589

Title: Creative Interviewing

Author: Ken Metzler

Publisher: Allyn and Bacon

ISBN: 0967843200

Title: Power Producer

Author: Dow Smith

Publisher: Radio-Television News Directors Association

COURSE OUTCOMES

1. Following current events and being able to find a local angle to a national or international story.

2. Pitching, researching, writing, reporting, shooting, editing stories under tight deadline pressure.

3. Advanced photojournalism: Students should have a high appreciation for the power of pictures in video news. They should have the ability to distinguish the most memorable and compelling video to help tell the story. Students should also be able to personalize a story with a least one central character.

4. Researching stories: Students should be able to go beyond the basic information provided by their instructors, editors or interviewees. They should be able to write a story “pitch” proposal based on the information they discover. A thin or incomplete Story Idea Form will affect your project grade.

5. Reporter standups: Students should be able to produce meaningful standups that advance or bridge their stories from one element to the next both journalistically and visually.

6. Producing News Broadcasts: We recognize that most producing opportunities, aside from on-air reporting, are in producing entire news broadcasts. Annenberg broadcast majors should be able to understand the challenges of putting together a television news/webcast for a mass audience in Los Angeles. This means that students should be able to start thinking in terms of news judgment, setting realistic time allotments, orderly presentation of ideas, pacing, style and several other areas of production necessary for a journalistically sound and creatively compelling newscast.

7. Producing specialty segments, such as sports and weather: How these segments are changing as people get information from other sources such as the Internet, ESPN, The Weather Channel, Blackberrys, iPhones, text messages, etc.

8. Live reports: Students should be able to report and/or introduce a story live at the scene and interact with an anchor. This skill is critical for a television news journalist.

9. Graphics: Students should be knowledgeable in the types of graphics available and be able to incorporate them into complex stories to aid understanding.

10. Ratings and Research: Familiarity with ratings and sampling techniques. What ratings can tell a producer and what they cannot.

Students will complete two reporter packages for homework assignments by midterm. Maximum length: 1:30 to 1:45. No package (except for the final) should exceed 1:45 without the consent of the instructor in advance.

Students will complete two additional packages the second half of the semester, last of which will be a multi-faceted or complex issue, as a final exam. This final project could run up to 2 or minutes or longer, if approved in advance by the instructor.

DAILY NEWS AND VIEWINGS

You will be required to watch at least one local and/or national newscast daily. Vary the newscasts each day to gain an appreciation for differing styles and news judgments.

We also urge you to view “CBS Sunday Morning” and “60 Minutes”. CBS Sunday Morning features some of the best produced and most creatively shot news stories on television. 60 Minutes offers lengthy reports that are issue oriented or profiles of famous people.

Also, given this era of opinion journalism, I recommend the “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel and “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC. Also, Comedy Central’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart. These programs round out the traditional news broadcasts by providing stories influenced by the anchors opinions. These programs utilize traditional newsroom personnel to write and produce the various segments.

ETHICS DISCUSSIONS & SPECIAL GUESTS

Special guests from local newsrooms will appear to discuss current ethical issues and share their views on the changing landscape of television news. They will also talk about their experiences as television and web journalists. Students will be encouraged to participate in these discussions. You will be graded on your participation in class and the written logical thoughtfulness of your reports on these sessions.

STORY ASSIGNMENTS

There will be four major produced packages including the final, plus several other assignments listed in the syllabus. All video assignments should be turned in on DVD. All audio and video elements – voiceover, sound bites, natural sound and picture descriptions must be shown on the accompanying hard-copy script.

GRADING CRITERIA: ASSIGNMENTS AND VIDEO PACKAGES

A. Basic criteria - You will be graded on clarity, organization, accuracy, fairness/balance, completeness/omissions, grammar, spelling, and ability to meet deadlines. We will distribute a separate checklist showing the exact criteria we will be grading. Written story pitches (proposals) are mandatory and will be factored into the grade average for each project.

Each story will have a letter grade (A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-or F). On some assignments, we may use a point system, but the points will be translated to a letter grade.

1. “A” stories are accurate, clear, comprehensive stories that

are well written and require only minor copy editing (i.e.,

they would air). They are also shot and edited creatively,

are well paced, and include good sound bites and natural

sound that adds flavor, color, or emotion to the story.

2. “B” stories require more than minor editing, and have a few style or spelling errors or one significant error of omission. There may be minor flaws in the composition of some shots or in the editing. Good use of available sound bites.

3. “C” stories need considerable editing or rewriting and/or

have many spelling, style or omission errors. Camera work

and editing techniques are mediocre or unimaginative, but

passable. Sound bites add little or no color – only

information that could be better told in the reporter’s

narration.

4. “D” stories require excessive rewriting and have

Numerous errors, and should not have been submitted. Camera work is unsatisfactory, or fails to show important elements.

5. “F” stories have failed to meet the major criteria of the

assignment, have numerous errors, or both. A story that

has a  factual error that is material to the story merits an F.

The following are some other circumstances that would

warrant a grade of F:

• Plagiarizing a script, portions of a script, or information from any source – wire copy, feed packages, another reporter’s package or story script. (See below.)

• Staging video: When the reporter tells or asks someone to do something specific, unless that is revealed or made obvious in the context of the story. (Gray areas will be discussed in class.)

• Using video shot by someone else and presenting it as his or her own work.

• Telling interview subjects what you want them to say.

• Distorting video: shooting video in one location and presenting it as being another location.

• Using the camcorder to intentionally intimidate, provoke or incite a person or a group of people to elicit more “dramatic” video.

• Having someone else shoot your stand-up (portion of story when the reporter is on-camera) or interviews – (but only in those cases when the assignment specifically calls for you to shoot your own stand-up and/or interviews).

• Promising, paying or giving someone something in exchange for doing an interview, either on or off camera.

B. PLAGIARISM/ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY

Plagiarism is defined as taking ideas or content from another and presenting them as one's own. The following is the School of Journalism's policy on academic integrity as published in the University catalogue:

"Since its founding, the USC School of Journalism has maintained a commitment to the highest standards of ethical conduct and academic excellence. Any student found plagiarizing, fabricating, cheating on examinations, and/or purchasing papers or other assignments faces sanctions ranging from an “F” on the assignment to dismissal from the School of Journalism.” All academic integrity violations will be reported to the office of Student Judicial Affairs & Community Standards (SJACS), as per university policy, as well as journalism school administrators and the school’s academic integrity committee.

In addition, it is assumed that the work you submit for this course is work you have produced entirely by yourself, and has not been previously produced by you for submission in another course or Learning Lab, without approval of the instructor.

GRADING POLICIES

Undergraduate Degrees: The School of Journalism expects its students to maintain at least a 2.7 (B-) grade point average in all journalism classes. Those who fall below this will receive additional counseling from faculty and advisement staff. Students are required to complete each journalism class with at least a grade of C-. Journalism courses with a grade of D+ or below must be repeated.

Please note that the university's cumulative grade point average will include both grades in its calculations and students must maintain a minimum 2.0 grade point average to graduate from USC.

C. Late Assignments - Core policy is that no late assignments will be accepted, except for verified medical reasons or documented extraordinary circumstances. Meeting deadlines is a journalistic necessity in the real world.

D. Rewriting Stories - You will be allowed to rewrite, reshoot, or re-edit assignments to achieve a higher grade.  Such rewrites must be done within a deadline to be determined by the instructor, and the two grades will be averaged. This policy does not apply to Package #4 (final exam).

ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATIONS

Any students requesting academic accommodations based on a disability are required to register with Disability Services and Programs (DSP) each semester. A letter of verification for approved accommodations can be obtained from DSP when adequate documentation is filed. Please be sure the letter is delivered to the professor as early in the semester as possible. DSP is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. The office is located in the Student Union room 301 and their phone number is (213) 740-0776.

INTERNSHIPS

The value of professional internships as part of the overall educational experience of our students has long been recognized by the School of Journalism.  Accordingly, while internships are not required for successful completion of this course, any student enrolled in this course who undertakes and completes an approved, non-paid internship during this semester shall earn academic extra credit herein of an amount equal to one percent of the total available semester points for this course.

To receive instructor approval, a student must request an internship letter from the Annenberg Career Development Office and bring it to the instructor to sign by the end of the third week of classes. The student must submit the signed letter to the media organization, along with the evaluation form provided by the Career Development Office.  The form should be filled out by the intern supervisor and returned to the instructor at the end of the semester. No credit will be given if an evaluation form is not turned in to the instructor by the last day of class. Note:  The internship must be unpaid and can only be applied to one journalism class.

CLASS ATTENDANCE

Students are advised to attend the first class meetings of their journalism classes or the instructors may drop them from their classes. The School of Journalism adheres to the university policy, which states “an instructor may replace any student who without prior consent does not attend...the first class session of the semester for once-a-week classes. It is then the student’s responsibility to withdraw officially from the course through the Registration Department.”

You are expected to be in class every week, or obtain the instructor's approval in advance if you will miss a class – except for verified medical reasons or emergencies. You will be allowed to edit packages in the Annenberg Digital Lab only if you attend the advanced Avid editing workshop Week 2 and complete required work. Students who miss the first class meeting without prior consent may be dropped. Although the syllabi are similar, every core class is different, so you cannot make up a class session by going to another class in the same sequence, except for the Final Cut Pro Workshop.

COURSE GRADES

Ethics Discussions 10%

Package #1 (Multi-shoot preferred) 10%

Package #2 (Coastal Cleanup) 15%

Package #3 (Multi-shoot preferred) 20%

Newscast blocking and explanation 10%

Package #4 (Final Project – Multi-shoot required)   25%

ATVN Learning Lab: 10%

__________

Total: 100%

CLASS SCHEDULE

(Always subject to change)

Week 1 ▬ August 28

Class Topics:

4:00 to 4:45pm

Introductions, review syllabus, What’s expected – what you should be able to do by the end of the semester. What constitutes good production? Photojournalism: Discuss the importance of pictures and sound in news packages and the importance of “people” in television news stories. Going beyond the obvious and required elements for a memorable story.

4:45 to 5:45pm

View and discuss Video: KTLA The First 35-Years.

5:45 to 6:00pm

BREAK

6:00 to 6:20pm

Introduction to new Tapeless Cameras that will be checked out to you.

6:20 to 6:40pm

Visit from Annenberg TV News. Requirements and paperwork.

Homework:

E-mail me a letter about yourself. Tell me anything you would like to help me understand who you are and your particular interests or goals in journalism. You may tell anything you’d like to mention. Write it in an easy, conversational style, and make it interesting. We will be making preliminary judgments about your writing and storytelling abilities from this letter. It will not be graded, but it will be answered. Due no later than Monday, September 3, 2012, via email: Jeffrey.Wald@usc.edu. And take a short online course provided free from the Poynter. News University:



Also read an ethics statement prepared by the Society of Professional Journalists:



WEEK 2 — SEPTEMBER 4

Apple Final Cut Pro in-class workshop. Mandatory! We will meet today in the Apple Digital Lab. Room G40 (Garden Level), not in our regular classroom.

Please make sure that your letter has been emailed to me by today’s deadline.

Homework Assignments:

Complete editing the package you started in the in-class Apple editing workshop. Deadline is next Tuesday. Students who have not completed editing on the workshop package will not be permitted to edit additional class projects on the Apple computers. Take care to balance audio levels between the reporter narration and ambient sound in the background. Use this for practice. You do not have to turn this in.

Your first package assignment is now scheduled for next Saturday, September 8, 2012. All students will cover the same story, THE LA GREEK FEST. The festival runs from 1:00pm to 11:00pm. It will take place at Normandie and 15th Street —not too far away from USC.

Although you may share transportation with other class members, I am looking for each student's own individual take on the Festival. I encourage you to go beyond just showing the festival, as colorful as it may be. Look for interesting individuals you might profile, or certain activities that would make a good story. I am NOT looking for you to just aim your camera at the events unfolding in front of you. A standup is required, use the tripod or hand hold the camera yourself.

The deadline for the completed package is the same (September 25th) with a printed script and story on DVD. Please don't wait until the last minute to dub your story to DVD if you use USC facilities to make the copy.

WEEK 3 — SEPTEMBER 11

Class Topics:

Discuss the first shooting assignment and editing basics, e.g., jump cuts, etc. Shooting for the eye and ear, types of camera shots, editing in the camera.

Special Guest: Marcia Brandwynne, Regular contributor to the syndicated program, “America Now”, Media Executive, Executive Producer, Assistant News Director, Movie Producer and former TV News Anchor/Reporter, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, KGO-TV, San Francisco. Marcia will talk about the psychology of being a good reporter, anchor and manager in the news business of today.

Homework Assignment:

Continue work on Package #1. A reminder, I would like the completed story to be copied to DVD along with a printed hard copy of the script and OTS graphics. The story will be critiqued in class on Tuesday, September 25, 2012.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 – LAST DAY TO DROP

A CLASS WITHOUT A MARK OF “W”, AND LAST DAYTO CHANGE ENROLLMENT OPTION TO PASS/NO PASS

WEEK 4 — SEPTEMBER 18

Class Topics:

Discuss the importance of pictures and how they relate to words. Discuss and illustrate the use of a compelling opening shot, and how its choice can affect how story is told and perceived. Illustrate and discuss sequences and how they can make a story more interesting. We will also discuss the importance of sound – both natural sound and sound bites. What is the purpose of a sound bite? How long should a sound bite run? How do you decide? Personalizing your story: Try to find a “real person” to help advance your story.

Special Guest: Brittney Hopper, Anchor/Reporter, CBS 47, Fresno, California. Broadcast Journalism graduate of San Francisco State University. Brittney will tell you about her journey and what makes a credible television news reporter and anchor.

Handout: The Seven Points of Storytelling. Reading: Advanced Camera Techniques: Chapter on photojournalism from “Write for the Ear, Shoot for the Eye, Aim for the Heart”. (On Blackboard)

Homework Assignment:

Complete final writing, shooting and editing of LA Greek Festival Package #1. Deadline for the DVD is next week’s class session, September 25th! All packages will be viewed and critiqued in class next week!

WEEK 5 — SEPTEMBER 25

Special Guest: Tony Fote, Videographer/Editor, KTLA, Los Angeles. Tony will talk about his background, experience, News Editing Techniques, Visualization, Natural Sound and concept of a Mini-Movie with a beginning middle and an end.

Class Topics:

View story packages of your first story wrap, LA Greek Festival Package #1. Bring to class your edited DVD with a hard copy of complete script and OTS graphic(s).

Reporter Stand-ups:

Discuss the purpose and value of stand-ups. We go beyond the simple stand-up and strive for motivated production values. Discuss live stand-up opens and interaction with anchors. Discuss team coverage and standup closes that “toss” to another reporter.

Homework Assignment:

Come up with an original story idea that will be your 2nd reporter package. Use the “Story idea form” available on Blackboard for this course and bring a hard copy to class for full class discussion. The story should be current, relevant and should be interesting to a general audience. This should be an original idea developed from local sources and should NOT be USC centric. It may be hard news, feature, sports, investigative, etc. As a class we will hear your story pitches next week and they must be approved by me before you begin shooting!

Reading:

Be sure to pick up a copy of the Monday, October 1st Los Angeles Times to the next class on Tuesday, October 2, 2012! Please read it and be familiar with it in time for next week’s session. No other date or edition will be accepted. Bring the print copy of the newspaper with you to class.

WEEK 6 — OCTOBER 2, 2012

Class Topics:

Pitch your stories and I will approve them. Package #2 will be due in class on DVD in three-weeks, on October 23, 2012.

Producing a television news broadcast. Discuss what a producer does. What decisions does he or she make, and on what basis are those decisions made?

We will use Monday’s October 1, 2012 Los Angeles Times to block out (paper-produce) a sample newscast in class based on a vote of your story selections and time allotments.

Handout:

News Breakdown (Available on Blackboard)

Video: Don Hewett Retrospective

WEEK 7 — OCTOBER 9

Class Topics:

Talk about how Television Broadcast Journalism has changed. Multimedia Journalists (MMJs) were only in small markets. Now large markets such as New York and Los Angeles are hiring people that can do it all: Reporter Producer Writer Cameraperson Editor.

Video: Video Journalist packages from San Francisco’s KRON-TV to illustrate how to write, edit and produce your stories for J-306.

Handout: Chapter on photojournalism from “Write for the Ear, Shoot for the Eye, Aim for the Heart”. (Download from Blackboard)

WEEK 8 — OCTOBER 16

Special Guest: Barbara Lopez-Nash, Regional Human Resources Director at Tribune Broadcasting & KTLA, Los Angeles.

Class Topics:

Barbara will talk about Internship and job opportunities in broadcast television today and will talk about the specific skills and requirements that employers look for in candidates.

Videos: Reporter/Anchor audition reels.

WEEK 9 — OCTOBER 23

Package #2 is due!

Special Guest:

Jon T. Fischer, News Director, XETV, Channel 6, San Diego. Former News Director in Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and Palm Desert. Assistant News Director, KTLA and KCOP, Los Angeles. Executive Producer, Assistant News Director, Assignment Editor, Field Producer, Chief News Cameraman, Transmission Technician, Video Editor, Associate Director, KTLA, Los Angeles.

Class topics:

• Classroom Critiques of Package #2.

• What journalistic skills are needed to be hired by a TV Station?

• What types of stories should be on your audition reel?

• Package #3 criteria and pitch session. Get instructor’s and class approval for your story assignments for package #3. Start setting up your interview(s), b-roll for your package, etc. Stand-ups are important!

Homework Assignments:

Practice your stand-ups and narration techniques as critiqued in class. Utilize higher production values and incorporate more graphics. Read chapter 11 of Tuggle’s “Broadcast News Handbook.” Start thinking about the writing, shooting and editing of Package #3

DVD of package #3 is due November 13, 2012.

WEEK 10 — OCTOBER 30

Special Guest:

Gerald J. Ruben, Former Executive Producer, KTLA, Producer/Writer KCBS-TV (then KNXT-TV) and KTTV, Los Angeles.

Class Topics: The changes is the News Industry from the perspective of a local news and industry veteran.

Homework Assignment:

Purchase and skim through tomorrow’s L.A. Times, for Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Bring that edition to class next week and be prepared to discuss which stories you propose including in your newscast, and why. You may want to get a jump on the stories by watching two or more television newscasts on Halloween evening – at least one local and one national newscast.

WEEK 11 ▬ NOVEMBER 6

Class Topics:

View the 6PM local newscasts for Wednesday, October 31, 2012 of the three major network-owned Los Angeles TV stations; KCBS-TV, Channel 2, KNBC-TV, Channel 4 and KABC-TV, Channel 7, to compare and discuss. Unless there is a single, overriding story that day, you may be surprised how different they are. Discuss why there is such a difference among newscasts, since all three are vying for the same basic audience – viewers who want local news at 6 p.m. and may stay tuned for the national-international network news at 6:30 p.m.

View the two leading National, Network Broadcasts: The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and the ABC World News with Diane Sawyer.

• Compare that morning’s LA Times with the 3 local news programs. How many stories came from the newspaper?

• Ratings and Demographics. How they affect news judgment and news production.

WEEK 12 — NOVEMBER 13

Package #3 DUE in class TODAY!

Special Guest: Frank Mottek is the voice of business news in Los Angeles. An award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years of experience, Frank currently anchors the business reports on KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO.

Weekdays at 1pm, he hosts the KNX Business Hour, the number one source for business and consumer news in Southern California.

Since joining CBS in Los Angeles in 1992, he served as a spot reporter for KCBS Channel 2 for six years. He was also a reporter and business news anchor on the KTLA Channel 5 News at 10 and the Emmy-Award winning KTLA Morning News for ten years.

Frank began his career in broadcast journalism in high school at a top-rated FM station in Miami where he was promoted to News Director at the age of 18. He then joined the all-news CBS station Miami where he was morning news anchor, reporter and news/talk host for 11 years.

During that time, he provided the live descriptions of all space shuttle launches for the CBS Radio Network from 1985 through 1991 and he was an eyewitness to the 1986 Challenger disaster at the Kennedy Space Center.

He is frequently called to lead the highest profile economic and business discussions in Southern California including events for the LA Area Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Business Federation, LA County Economic Development Corporation, California State Forum, Milken Institute, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the Association for Corporate Growth.

For ten years, Frank was an instructor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC teaching the “Newsradio” course he created.

Frank has won numerous awards from the AP, UPI, RTNDA, Florida Medical Association, L.A. Press Club and the Radio-TV News Association of Southern California including many Golden Mikes.

Frank currently serves as President of The Society of Professional Journalists-Los Angeles Chapter, serves on the board of the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California and the Concern Foundation for Cancer Research in Beverly Hills. He previously served as President of the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters.

Class Topics: The Past and Future of Radio and the job market in radio, television and the Internet.

Class topics:

Classroom Crtiques of Package #3. View, discuss, and evaluate in class.

Homework Assignment:

Come with your Story Idea Form. We will give immediate feedback so that you can begin work on the final package #4 immediately.

NOVEMBER 16 – LAST DAY TO DROP CLASS WITH MARK OF “W”

WEEK 13 — NOVEMBER 20

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! NO CLASS THIS WEEK!

WEEK 14 — NOVEMBER 27

Special Guest:

Jann Carl, Journalist, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer, National Correspondent, Reporter, News & Entertainment Anchor, Network Host.

Jann is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. She worked as a news reporter at WLS-TV, Chicago and KABC-TV. She co-anchored KTLA News at Ten with Hal Fishman for 8-years. From 1995 to 2008, Jann was National Correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and Weekend Anchor of the broadcast.

At Entertainment Tonight, Jann broke many celebrity exclusives and was the go-to journalist of choice for newsmakers such as Barack Obama, Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Jann is an integral part of the anchor team that brings the MDA Telethon into Americas homes every Labor Day and has co-hosted other special events such as ABCs Countdown to the Oscars and both CBS and HGTVs coverage of the Annual Tournament of Roses Parade. She has also appeared on Candid Camera and America's Next Top Model.

Jann currently is a Partner of Evident Entertainment, LLC and co-Executive Producer of Sold! a reality program on the History Channel. She is also currently developing other series projects.

Class Topics:

• Discuss Jann’s successful career and opportunities for students getting into news, entertainment, documentary and sports reporting and production.

• Discuss the role of the “gatekeeper” in television news in the age of the Internet.

WEEK 15 — DECEMBER 4

Class Topics:

The “new look” in television news. How news producers are aiming at the young (18-34) audience with new production and distribution methods, and Web convergence. View and discuss examples:

Video: KTTV Local 5:00pm Studio 11 program and KTLA’s 6:00PM Newscast. Discuss breaking news and formats.

Homework Assignment: Complete editing on your final Package #4 and review the requirements.

NO CLASS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2010: STUDY DAYS

WEEK 16 ▬ DECEMBER 18: 4:30pm ▬ 6:30pm

Final Package #4 is due today! Bring to class a DVD of your edited story plus a DVD of your raw video, and a complete script with all cues.

• View and Critique Package #4 in class

• Discuss the future of Broadcast News

“Wrap” party in class, hosted by instructor!

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