ENG 285 Lecture Notes - Obits
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Ethical question: you agree to run one story about a fundraiser for a terminally ill person, what happens when others ask for the same: find out if they are ill is it newsworthy? is there a spot for it. Uniform coverage for all on a set day. Give link to other organisation that deals with that. You want the best answers, you need to ask the best questions. Homework (business, position, politics, check archives) so you can get the right information and say they"re wrong. Have bones of questions, this can help you bring it back from a tangent: guess at the answers, the answer could prove surprising or a contradiction. Have series of gates: start with secretary, board, spokes people, source. Have variety of ways to contact people and bypass some gates: the better you know someone, the harder it is for a source to say no.
