Today we're going to break down audio news stories.
They are just like written news stories, but they often are a slightly different type of story. They are also feature stories.
In a hard news story, you have the inverted pyramid lede, that you're practiced before. It answers who, what, when, where, why and how questions.
Feature stories are often profiles of a person, and begin with a story about that person. The lede is buried, later in the story, around the 4th or 5th paragraph.
Today we'll listen to NPR.org. NPR stands for National Public Radio, a news and entertainment radio channel run by the government. It is funded by listeners, and has no commercials.
Go to NPR.org.
Podcasting -- In the era of the internet, radio shows work on podcasting. On TV, if you like a show, you can watch it on demand. You can go to say, comedy central.com and watch a show or segment from a program like Southpark or Key and Peele. Or, you can go to pay services like Netflix or Hulu and watch them on your computers, or smartphones.
Podcasting is the same for radio. You record shows and load them to placed like iTunes. People can then download the programs on their phones and listen to them in the car, at the gym, or wherever and whenever they fell like listening.
Assignment 1 -- Find a hard news story. Listen to Morning Edition.
Go to the NPR Hourly News Summary.
1. Find the first story and write out the lede.
2. Identify the who, what, when, where, why or how in that sentence.
3. Tell me the length of that story.
4. Identify anybody who was interviewed in that story.
Assignment 2
Find a longer story. Click on the 24 Hour Program Stream and find the story on Smartphones and Stalking.
1. The reporter sets up the story before giving a traditional lede, that tells you what the story is about. See if you can find the lede, and tell me how it begins (what are the first few words of the sentence) and where it finally arrives in the 8:54 story.
1. When does the story explain how stalkers use phones to track their victims?
2. When does that explanation come in the story?
3. Who explains how cyber-stalkers can follow a person on their smartphone.
4. What can the stalker do about a victim's money?
5. What is the name of the cyber-stalking program that was profile in the program?
6. Is cyber-stalking legal?
7. Who is the NPR correspondent who does this story?
8. Where is she based? In what city is she based?
Assignment 3
Listen to the "Whiteout" story on the program "Snap Judgement."
1. What is different about this type of story?
2. What does it have that the other store
They are just like written news stories, but they often are a slightly different type of story. They are also feature stories.
In a hard news story, you have the inverted pyramid lede, that you're practiced before. It answers who, what, when, where, why and how questions.
Feature stories are often profiles of a person, and begin with a story about that person. The lede is buried, later in the story, around the 4th or 5th paragraph.
Today we'll listen to NPR.org. NPR stands for National Public Radio, a news and entertainment radio channel run by the government. It is funded by listeners, and has no commercials.
Go to NPR.org.
Podcasting -- In the era of the internet, radio shows work on podcasting. On TV, if you like a show, you can watch it on demand. You can go to say, comedy central.com and watch a show or segment from a program like Southpark or Key and Peele. Or, you can go to pay services like Netflix or Hulu and watch them on your computers, or smartphones.
Podcasting is the same for radio. You record shows and load them to placed like iTunes. People can then download the programs on their phones and listen to them in the car, at the gym, or wherever and whenever they fell like listening.
Assignment 1 -- Find a hard news story. Listen to Morning Edition.
Go to the NPR Hourly News Summary.
1. Find the first story and write out the lede.
2. Identify the who, what, when, where, why or how in that sentence.
3. Tell me the length of that story.
4. Identify anybody who was interviewed in that story.
Assignment 2
Find a longer story. Click on the 24 Hour Program Stream and find the story on Smartphones and Stalking.
1. The reporter sets up the story before giving a traditional lede, that tells you what the story is about. See if you can find the lede, and tell me how it begins (what are the first few words of the sentence) and where it finally arrives in the 8:54 story.
1. When does the story explain how stalkers use phones to track their victims?
2. When does that explanation come in the story?
3. Who explains how cyber-stalkers can follow a person on their smartphone.
4. What can the stalker do about a victim's money?
5. What is the name of the cyber-stalking program that was profile in the program?
6. Is cyber-stalking legal?
7. Who is the NPR correspondent who does this story?
8. Where is she based? In what city is she based?
Assignment 3
Listen to the "Whiteout" story on the program "Snap Judgement."
1. What is different about this type of story?
2. What does it have that the other store