How to Pitch a Story Idea
Use this checklist before you present your idea to your editor
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1. Explain why your story idea is relevant now
Is it connected to a recent event or a topical issue? Clarify its newsworthiness.
2. Do your homework
Go beyond hearsay and assumptions. Do some research, conduct some pre-reporting. What background information can you give? . . .
The Inverted Pyramid
How a news story is organized
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No matter what medium you're writing for, reporting is reporting and storytelling is storytelling -- you'll always need to include the basic building blocks of a story.
The Lede grabs the attention of the reader or listener.
The Nut Graf gets to the . . .
Web skills workshop
Digital know-how for journalists
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Valuable online multimedia, data journalism, and business skills for in-demand news reporters
As news happens, it'll continue to need to be reported, but the way that reporting happens and by whom will continuously change. The question is, can you keep up with what's expected in the most cutting edge . . .
SELECT needle FROM haystack;
Load a dataset and run queries to find the info you need to support your reporting.
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Agenda
Intro
Explain Firefox's database management extension, SQLite Manager.
Demo how to use the
SELECTstatement and theFROMcommand to find and view specific data.Demo how to filter data using the
WHEREcriteria command.Demo how to sort data using . . .