TJ CA2 Brief

 Objectives 

In this assignment, students will be tested on their ability to: Tasks Introduction Instructions
 * Identify news values
 * Write strong leads.
 * Write news articles in an inverted pyramid format.
 * Organize and rank news articles.
 * Repurpose print news stories to radio news stories.
 * Present radio news stories.
 * 1) To produce a four-page newspaper with CASS students as the target audience.
 * 2) To produce and present three radio news stories for SPACE Radio.
 * 1) You will be grouped into teams of five or six members to form an editorial commitee.
 * 2) You will be assigned to cover a "hard" news story.
 * 3) You will be given a guide of the type of follow-up stories.

1) As members of an editorial commitee, your group needs to brainstorm to come up with: 2) Ensure that each member of the editorial committee is assigned to write at least one article. There must be a combination of hard and "soft" news but there is no lmit to the number of articles.
 * The name of your newspaper
 * The angle of the "hard" news story assigned to you.
 * At least one follow-up story from the "heard" news.
 * Unlimited number of "soft" news stories of your choice.

3) once you've decided on your stories, paginate your newspaper.

4) combine and organise your article into a four-page newspaper.

5) you are free to design the look of your newspaper in any way you believe is presentable. You must ensure that: 6) Present your newspaper to the class and explain: 7) Pick three articles from your newspaper and these must be a combination of "hard" and "soft" news.
 * There is a masthead with the name of the newspaper.
 * Each article is complete (covers 5Ws and 1H as far as possible) and has a headline, byline, photo, caption and at least one quote.
 * Why you paginated your stories in the chosen arrangement.
 * The news values for each article.

8) Repurpose these three articles into 30-second radio news scripts.

9) Write out these radio scripts in the radio script format.

10) Line up your three radio news stories into a short broadcast.

11) Choose a good "voicer" from your team to deliver the three radio scripts for a broadcast recording.

What you need to hand in (written) What you need to present (oral)
 * The four-page newspaper
 * A table showing the news values for each article.
 * Three radio scripts that are marked for voicing.
 * Justification of your editorial decision in the way you paginate your stories.
 * Explaination of news values for each article.
 * Voicing of three chosen stories as a radio news bulletin.