We're primarily a broadcast news writing course - with audio production included. Here's a short handout to get you started writing "short and tight" - the way you'll need to for Radio & TV. Radio coach Valerie Geller contributed this very handy checklist of things to ask yourself:
How does this story affect my listener?
- How can I describe things more visually?
- How can I make someone care about this?
- How is it that I'm putting this story on air?
- How can the presented problems be solved? What are the solutions?
- How did this happen? How could it have been prevented?
- How else can I tell this story?
- How would I tell it to a friend?
- How can I make it better?
- How would I tell it if my life depended on NOT losing a listener?
