Journalism 133: Prof. Craig: Working With Reporters

Working With Reporters

The assigning editor's job goes beyond just fixing mistakes in a story.  Editors must work with reporters on generating and developing story ideas that are relevant to their outlet's audience.  In this exercise you will work in the groups below -- one of you as the reporter and one as the editor. 

You will work together to take a national or international story and give it a local angle for a story to be written for this class.  For the purposes of this assignment, "local angle" isn't limited to something specific to SJSU, but rather to our local area. 

The two of you should work together on choosing a story idea, an approach that localizes the story and a preliminary list of people you would seek to interview.  You will meet in your assigned groups for the remainder of the class period, then present your story ideas next Monday.  I need to end class at 11:30 a.m. today. 

Groups for exercise:

Group No.	Role	Name
1	Reporter	Breana Waterloo
	Editor	Alicia Alvarez
2	Reporter	Matt Weiner
	Editor	Jose Garcia
3	Reporter	Bryan Reos
	Editor	D'Netrus Chevis-Rose
4	Reporter	Asia Tugbenyoh
	Editor	Andrew Hartley
5	Reporter	Alice Solcan
	Editor	Alessio Cavalca
6	Reporter	Lesley Rodriguez
	Editor	Adrian Pereda
7	Reporter	Jillian Darnell
	Editor	Jeremy Martin
8	Reporter	Zulma Canahui-Bajxac
	Editor	Heather Allen