You work for a local
DC area (inc. VA and MD) radio station. Your
editor asks you to script the stories for the next news bulletin for
the on-the-hour news slot.
You may choose to
write for a hard-news station, or for a
soft-news station (human interest stories, (tugging the heart
strings, etc.) amusing ephemera). You should use the traditional
radio format we discussed in class for your script.
You should spend
c. 2 minutes on your lead story and include at
least three other stories, one of which may be a short,
light-hearted item.
Remember to choose
the lead story depending on the audience you are targetting. You need
to grab your audience's attention at the beginning of the broadcast.
And look for good quotes to bring 'real' people's voices into your
stories. Sometimes, a
more 'important' story may lose out as the lead to a story that features
dramatic voices.
Use the material
on the Metro
page of the Washington Post to
provide your raw data for the bulletin.