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This
is the first and most basic thing to know and conquer before
going to the next step. All news organisations hold an editorial
meeting everyday, wherein it is decided what to cover for
the day. Most organisations work on a policy in which
Reporters come up with ideas and the Editors decide what to
cover.
While presenting the idea a Reporter should first answer one
question, what is the story? The answer has to
be very specific.
Example : The answer cannot be that "A story
on the Congress party", or "About senior citizens",
etc. Instead it will have to be specific
like "The leadership crisis in the Congress party",
or "How the Senior Citizens are prone to crime etc."
A TV news or current
affairs story should have the following criterion:
- Interest -It
should be of interest to the viewers of the region where
the programme is being aired
- Visuals - You
should be able to get visuals that could tell the story.
- Why ?-
There should be a peg to the story, i.e. why you are doing
the story now?
- Statistics
- Experts and statistics should be available to make the
programme rich.
- Focus - The
idea should be focussed - this has been explained earlier.
- Conflicting viewpoints
- Ideally an idea should have conflicting view points to
make it rich.
Once you are clear on the idea, the next step
would be research to get the full information.
Go to Researching
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