ENG 285 Lecture Notes - News Style, Question Time, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform
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Don"t site sources, but need to know where facts come from. Proof if ours suffers ppl won"t talk to you two (reliable) sources are better than one: helps avoid defamation look at official records (budgets, committee reports) Why and how lead to subjectivity: be careful when explaining cause-> more facts, try to be objective do good and be fair. Story origination in large papers ~1/2 stories come from news/press releases if edited gets reporter"s name. Best are already written in news style. Give same treatment you would news stories (headline and first paragraph) Good starting place b/c has idea and contact info. Has levels (press agentry, public relations, corporate relation, internal relations, public affairs) Press releases have spin in client"s favour. Always take collect calls just in case. Some are fakes that reel you in strangers. Will they give you name and contact info? this is where interviewing comes in if they won"t it"s sketchy.
