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?
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Hi Congrats on your first post, and I am a fan of Valerie Geller as well.
Since you will be covering writing for radio, I assume some of your work will also cover material to be used in interviews. To the extent you are interested in interviewing in broadcast media, you will be interested in the blog "Conduct Knockout Broadcast Interviews", here is the link: http://conductknockoutbroadcastinterviews.com/blog/
I would love to have you visit the blog and make any comments you may have.
Good luck on your new blog, Ed Smith
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