News Gathering Pre-production

Tv Broadcasting 2 Review: News Gathering and Pre-Production

By Tanya Escobar

Effective News Gathering Techniques Include:

• Who, What, When,​ Where and Why

• Fact Checking

• Attribution

• Newsworthiness​

Effective News Gathering Techniques Include:

The 5 W's

A complete news story will answer the 5 W's.

Who, What, When, Where, and Why​

Effective News Gathering Techniques Include:

Fact Checking

In-house quality control, in which newsrooms double-check information before it is published.

Effective News Gathering Techniques Include:

Attribution

• Telling your audience where the information in your story comes from, as well as who is being quoted.

• Using a source's full name and job title if that's relevant.

Effective Writing for Television

The 4 C's: Correctness, Clarity, Conciseness, Color

• Correctness: information is factual

• Clarity: The 5 W's are covered ​

• Conciseness: Information is to the point

• Color: The story is interesting and engaging​

• Introductions: Get full name and title-(what is there relation to the story)

• Use Effective Questioning

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Effective Interview Techniques

• Filter Questions- yes or no questions to eliminate people who do not have relevance to the story

• Open Ended Questions: Questions that forces person being interviewed to give explanation about topic

• ​Restate the question: Have the person being interviewed restate the question in their answer

• Listen: Actively listen, they may something you want to follow up on​

Effective Interview Questions

Pre-Production Tasks

• Use effective communication skills including PURPOSE and AUDIENCE

• Audience: Who your message is intended for

• Pre-production meetings: Gather Stories, Develop content, Write Scripts, Create Rundown

Multiple Select

What Happens During a Pre-production meeting

• Gather Stories

• Interviews

• Write Scripts

• Create Rundown

• Develop content

Multiple Select

Effective news gathering techniques include

• Who, what, when, where, why

• fact checking

• attribution

• checking for newsworthiness

• Using Wikipedia

Multiple Select

What are the 4 C's

• Correctness

• Clarity

• Conciseness

• Color

• Coverage

Multiple Choice

In effective news writing, what does color refer to?

• The natural lighting

• The story is interesting and engaging​

• Taking out foul language by bleeping it

• Putting a warning at the beginning because there is inappropriate content

Multiple Choice

What is attribution?

• Characteristics of the person being interviewed

• Copyright infringement

• Telling your audience where the information in your story comes from, as well as who is being quoted.

• Attaching a meaning to something for your audience

Multiple Choice

Questions that force the person being interviewed to give an explanation are called, what?

• Filter Questions

• Yes- no

• Open-ended question