10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a topic.
-Consider the audience

2. Find an angle.
-Do something that no one else has 
-Be creative and clever

3. Collect information.
-Know about the topic 
-Study the information that is unknown 

4. Conduct the interviewees.
-Interview three people for most stories 
-Minimum of three questions 
-Have open ended questions


5. Shoot your reporter stand up.
-Only show reporter once
-Should show up in the middle of the story 

6. Organize your sound bites.
-Sound Bites; A piece of audio that can stand on its own. 
-Write a transition of the story 
-Stand up should be a transition

7. Write transitions in your story.
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8. Write the middle first and the conclusion last in your story.
- Very good at the beginning and end of the story
-Attention getter is needed

9. Write the anchor in's and out's (if necessary).
-Anchor will introduce you, not story. 
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10. Collect B-roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
-Footage 
-A-roll comes before the B-roll
-Ten times amount of footage and have many different shots
-Have A-roll match the B-roll

*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the