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Pitching your story
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Desc: This brief presentation gives tips on constructing your news story pitch to editors.
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- Slide 1:Pitching News Stories JOURN 305 Brett Atwood
- Slide 2:Specificity Flesh out the details of your pitch A general topic is not enough Example: – “College drinking” is too broad a topic – Narrow it down – Use a specific incident as a springboard for the topic and then dig deeper to find the angle – Why is there a problem? Has the problem increased compared to last year? What is being done about it? Etc. etc. etc…
- Slide 3:Research Research before you pitch your story idea Is this really a new idea? What make it news? How is it developing? Why does it matter readers?
- Slide 4:Succinctness Keep the pitch clean and focused “Edit your thoughts” before the pitch The main point should be easily understood by the editor To some degree, you are
