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Good M orning! M CS1250 Introduction to Journalism October 2016, Ulrich Werner, Adj. Prof. (IIS-RU) Whats on the M enue for this Week? 1. Introduction to International Journalism 2. Journalists Safety and Press Rights Defenders 3.


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Good M orning!

M CS1250 Introduction to Journalism

October 2016, Ulrich Werner, Adj. Prof. (IIS-RU)

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What’s on the M enue for this Week?

1. Introduction to International Journalism 2. Journalists’ Safety and Press Rights Defenders 3. The Life of International Correspondents 4. Covering the World News from Home

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The Role of International Correspondents

Video, about 13 minutes

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“It’s not the work that makes us tired at the end of the day. It’s the way we communicate with each other.”

Navbahor Imamova, Turkmenistan VoA Washington DC

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Covering the World News from Home.

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Covering the World News from Home

  • In the reality of our times, events that happen a

continent away may have direct and indirect effect in

  • ur backyards – and in the backyards of our local

audiences

  • It may be an earthquake, a political revolution, a

disease outbreak, a refugee crisis, a plain crash, an election, they are among many other events that have wide applications.

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Covering the World News from Home

  • Three quick examples:

– M illions of refugees from Syria

(Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey as direct neighbours; Europe, USA, Canada as destinations for many)

– The 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed 230,000

people in 14 countries

– The 2010 volcanic eruption on Iceland caused

all major European airports to close; about 107,000 flights were cancelled and millions of passengers were left stranded

  • Each of these examples is likely to have

affected people in your local community

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Covering the World News from Home

  • How can you as a journalist take advantage of such

events to make foreign news relevant to your own reader, listeners, and viewers?

  • How to find and how to tell stories that show the

impact of international events on local audiences?

  • How can you identify and reach the news sources

you need for your reporting?

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Covering the World News from Home

Five steps to your news report: 1. Find your news report idea 2. Identify news sources you need 3. Contact sources 4. Conduct interviews 5. M ake the local connection to the international event through your news report

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Covering the World News from Home

  • What is the impact on local drivers if oil prices in

M iddle East go up or down?

  • What’s the impact of a foreign disease outbreak like

Ebola or Zika

  • Some of these opportunities may come from

disasters or diseases, but others can be what audiences would consider ‘positive news’

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Covering the World News from Home

  • Example: When local athletes are going to compete
  • n international events (Olympic Games,

Paralympics, SEA Games, etc.), they are ideal

  • bjects for you to profile in print, online, on

television, or on radio

  • International exchange students attending a local

school or university are good subject for a profile

  • When QEII celebrated her 60th jubilee on the

throne, Brits all over the world gathered for celebrations – which are newsworthy

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Covering the World News from Home

  • Decide who can be knowledgeable news sources for

your report

  • In the case of the sports athletes, that includes the

athletes themselves, other members of their team, and their coaches, of course

  • News sources also may include relatives and friends

who live in your local area

  • If you’re going to profiles exchange students, logical

sources are the students themselves, their teachers, and their classmates, but they also include local host families students may be living with

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Covering the World News from Home

  • In other cases that happened far away, it may be

useful to turn to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to croud source

  • That helps you find sources you otherwise wouldn’t

know about

  • Decide the fastest and most efficient way to contact

these sources: First contact by phone, email, text, or SM S to set up the interviews

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  • u often find Skye and email addresses by online

search or asking other news sources

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Covering the World News from Home

1. First choice are always face-to-face interviews, they provide you with the chance to photos and documents 2. Skype interviews are second choice 3. Email interviews have very limited value other than getting a few facts or verifying basic information 4. If your sources are in another country, remember time zone differences!

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Covering the World News from Home

  • Do the interviews. Conduct the other background

research for your news report

  • Look for examples and anecdotes and put a human

face on the news whether it’s an upbeat situation or a tragedy

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  • u want your audience to feel a relationship or a

connection

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Covering the World News from Home

  • Remember that the international event is the reason
  • r the hook, you are doing that news report now
  • Don’t duplicate what the international media already

have reported

  • Do it in a distinctive ways that makes clear the local

connection with the international events

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Assignment No. 6 consis t

  • f 2 parts.

Please find it on the Web page. Have a good weekend!