Interviewing

What is an interview? An interview is when you talk to someone face to face and ask them questions. The differences between a journalistic interview is a focused conversation between two or more people to gather information on behalf of an unseen audience while interviewing is when two people are interviewed in front of an audience. What you need to prepare for an interview is use your time wisely and use a good strategy to help.

Before you remember important things in an interview, it depends on what type of interview it is. If it's a job interview, then you would remember their their name, their past, and job skills. If it's a news interview then you would probably write down the story. For both types of interview, after the interview you would probably thank the person for the information they gave you. You use your information by telling everything that happened in the interview.  Some more information that everyone should know is that to ask " Yes or No" questions at the end of the interview.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview

 Vocabulary,www.angelfire.com/trek/puknews/refsnp.html, 9/17/12

Media Release

A media release is a written or a recorded message for members of a news media for the purpose of announcing something. Press release is the same thing and same meaning as media release. Basically, they are mailed, faxed, or e-mailed to assignment editors at newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, or television networks.

For example, I would go somewhere with the most interesting or important story. Then, I'd go turn in the story to a news paper company, like the San Francisco Chronicle. It's very simple, all you have to do is get information, but make sure you have the right facts, then turn it to a new paper company or a televised network. 

It's important because getting to know a story and reporting it is important. Without reporters, televised news networks would not have a story to report. I will apply this knowledge, the knowledge that I've learned, to my knowledge so that I can become a better journalist or be good writer.

http://www.lincoln.org/resources/dyn/files/46211zc792ad47/_fn/samplemediareleaseNCAA.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_release

Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills, Honing the Craft, by: Robert M. Knight, pg 33, 167, 229-243

Inverted Pyramid Structure

The inverted pyramid structure is something used by proffesional journalists and other writers illustrate the placing of the most important information first within a text. It is a common method for writing news stories and is widely taught to journalism students.  The widest part at the top represents the most interesting and important information the writer means to convey, illustrating that this kind of material should head the article, while the tapering lower portion illustrates that other material should follow in order of diminishing importance.    

Journalism with the inverted pyramid structure, your writng will be more organized and will get people to keep reading your blog or article. If you don't use the pyramid structure, your stories will be not organized and people will not read your blog or article. It's like step by step, you're following steps so you can be a good journalist by following and using every step to be a great journalist.

I think that this concept is a little bit important because it helps you get more readers to follow you or read your article or blog. I will use this in my future work by putting the most important stories first and least important stories last.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/04/

Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, and How, James Glen Stovall, pg.124, 172-174, 199, 344, 176

Bias

It is good to know what bias is because if you don't what it means then you will have a problem being a journalist. There are different types of bias like, advertising bias, corporate bias, mainstream bias, and sensationalism bias. Advertising bias is when stories are selected or to please advertisers. Corporate bias is when stories are selected or slanted to please corporate owners of media. Mainstream bias is when a tendency to report what everyone else is reporting, and to avoid stories that will offend anyone. Sensationalism bias is when bias in favor of the exceptional over the ordinary, giving the impression that rare events, such as airplane crashes, are more common than common events, such as automobile crashes. You should not use mainstream bias in your report because it will offend someone for not telling the truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias

Journalism with bias can sometimes be a good thing. If you are reporting your point of view about a specific topic or person, it is okay. But, if you are reporting news to the whole world and you have biased facts, then people would be offended by something that is not true and could ruin your reputation of being a journalist.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/03/

I will use my knowledge and the knowledge that I've learned, in my future class work by making sure that I don't offend anybody and always making sure that I reread my post before I post it. It's also important to this class because if you don't know what bias means then you might offend somebody with the words you say and post.

Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills, Honing the Craft, Robert M. Knight, pg, 36,42,164,185