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Reporting Exam 1 Questions andAnswers
What you need to know - Answers --Ledes
-Story structure
-Organizing
-News gathering
-Interviewing
-AP Style
Reading:
-Foley: Talcott and Smith stories and interviews
-Harrower: chapters 4 and 5
-AP Stylebook
-Syllabus: All material except Healy and Benham stories
Thomas French - Answers --Grew up in Indiana
-Indiana Univ. - Fall 1976
-Pig story won first place in the Hearst contest
-Started at St. Pete Times in January 1981...23 years
-Pullizter Price-1998 for "Angels & Demons," where a mother and her two daughters
were murdered when they came to Tampa Bay on vacation from their dairy farm in NW
Ohio
Hog Wild Story - Answers --Farm in Elwood
-Harold and Evelyn
-86 pigs in total
-Duroc breed
-Junior and Funk (Funk is Junior's dad)
-Junior is bigger than Funk
-Funk is their favorite
-Entered in the Indiana State Fair every year
-Won their first title with another pig in 1972
-Funk won in 1975 and 1976
-Junior won in 1978
-Only one other pig entered this past fair
-Junior weighed 1,150 pounds, Funk weighed 985 pounds
-Sandy Hill from Good Morning America
-Indiana Pork Queen, 1979 (Purdue University)
-Three-legged cat and a one-eyed dog
-Junior eats two to three gallons of feed every day
, -They will put Junior on a diet to slim him down to 900 pounds for his health
-Harold wants to get a hod up to 1,200 pounds
Hog Wild Interview - Answers --French grew up going to the Indiana State Fair
-Had just come from his internship in the features department at the Cincinnati Enquirer
-His editor and other people at the Indiana Daily Student thought the pig story was a
stupid idea
-"A Cry in the Night," - a series of stories that revisited the case of a young woman who
was murdered in her home by a neighbor, a firefighter" (French's story is similar to this)
-Wrote Hog story by hand at his girlfriend's apartment
-French went to the fair first and to Elwood second
-"If there's something pulling in your head-listen to it"
-French said he learned how to detail report from Mike Foley
-The best writing tip he taught him was "Get the dog's name"
-The editors wanted to put a black bar over the pig's tesiticles for the picture
-French was 10 when he became interested in journalism. Mrs. Bell, Delaware Trail
Elementary (good fifth-grade teacher)
-She had frosted-blonde hair and frosted lipstick, 22 years old
-Read Charlotte's Web, Willy Wonka, and Stuart Little to them
-After he won Pulizter prize, he tracked her down in Dunedin (Fl.) She married a dentist.
She came to Sam's kindergarten book reading (story was about a goldfish).
-She said she knew he was going to be a journalist because he always had his
notebook in his back pocket.
Hog Wild interview pt. 2 - Answers --Prof. Richard Tobin, another mentor
-Neville Green edited a lot of his stories, including Pulitzer Prize winner
-Anne Hull
-David Finkel
-Karl Vick
-Rick Bragg from the NYT
-Once broke down in tears in the newsroom
-Thinks TV does a good job of making long stories short
-Told Andy Barnes (and editor at St. Pete) that he wasn't very interested in the news
-Doesn't believe in just giving the news to the reader, he would rather tell a story from
beginning to end
-Had a prof., Ralph Holsinger, terrifying. Taught him AP Style, grammar, etc.)
-A sight speller
-Learned how to walk by holding a book at 9 months old
-A big reader growing up
-First day at Indiana Daily Student: had to talk to a bursar but didnt know what a burasr
was so the interview and story sucked
He learned to 1). Not pretend like he knew everything and ask the right questions. 2).
Listen closely to who you're interviewing
-Takes notes with Gregg shorthand
-Always fact-checks with sources, but has to watch out for manipulative people
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