Rockstar Camp!
Beginners mode was overwhelming in News Writing class today! I suppose tomorrow's going to be full of surprises, and in spite of being the first day I learned information that will be helpful next year for the Woodland Chronicles staff members. For example, our instructor Mrs. Boggs gave a brief introduction to story format, 'understand the news values', and interviewing. News Writing has very intelligent people with great ideas and skills. I'm very pleased to be surrounded by such a bright group of people.
I'd like to briefly go over some of the material I learned specifically what makes a story newsworthy, for instance what is the impact of the story, the time it happened (is it recent?), does it cover someone important the audience wants to learn about (prominence)?, where it happened... Although everything I learned is important and interesting, my favorite is on interviewing because it seems like a challenge to me. Interview is not just asking someone questions and moving on, but in order to write a great story you have to apply yourself more. Observing skills and self-confidence are two of the most important qualities I learned a good interviewer can have, having strong questions and a strong foundation of information on the topic are also critical.
Hopefully, tomorrow I'd be more alert and involved in our class because I'm eager to learn more about 'what an actual newspaper staff' really must do to make a 'paper successful. My number one priority is improving my writing skills (i.e vocabulary) and ability to work with other people. I have no experience whatsoever as to 'popcorning ideas' and creating a product with so many different ideas in it!
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