reporter's notebook

People probably think of journalism as just writing stories and reporting news with major ideas. Telling stories is something most journalists love to do in their job field. They love storytelling. Now that the different multimedia ideas have upgraded today, journalists have upgrade their storytelling with multiple great formats such as audio, text, videos, pictures and more. Your audience tends to pay more attention to the story with such great formats. This particular video informs us of a young child feeling afraid to inform his parents that he is being mistreated at school by his own teacher. At six years old and in kindergarten, the child was molested and taken advantage of by his own teacher. This story consists of photos, audio and text at the same time and that will the stories more interesting and easier to understand. The photos were in the story to give you a hint of what exactly was going on with the child throughout his struggle. The photos can be worth a thousand words by themselves. The photos speak volume to its audience. Photos or multiple of them has the ability to convey stories to those that view them. The photos are used to convey emotion, mood, and messages. The photos capture the essence of a written story. The photos beginning the story put the rest of the images into context. Those photos introduce important characters in the story. In this particular story the picture of the boy shows that he is an important character throughout the story. They photos in the middle of the story show what happens but also explores the themes and ideas. The ending photos are the ones you want to leave with the audience to show them how the ending of the story turned out. The audio was added to the story to let you know more about the photos. Using the audio adds the details of the photos. Great audio conveys great information to the audience. Great audio relays facts to the audience while adding details to the story. The audio was used to convey narrative. The text was used for those who did not understand the pictures and the audio. The text in this specific story was used to catch the audience’s attention. The text was also used to tell you what was going to happen in the story before telling the story. These events are all important when telling a story. Here is a link to learn more.

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Headlines, Blurbs, and Leads

Ketch Dewalt
MCOM 226

1. Headline: Health Department Suspends Bakery License
Blurb: Hoping that the problem a year ago of found cockroaches, mice droppings, flour beetles and health problems in the Kalani Bros. Bakery would be corrected, more problems arises.
Lead: Health inspectors arrived last Friday, a fourth time at the a bakery on Moore Street: the Kalani Bros. Bakery to suspend the bakers license.

2. Headline: No new fees, no new growth
Blurb: The county will stop granting any new building permits, roads and schools will become overcrowded, and police and fire protection will deteriorate.
Lead: County officials will be revealing their report at a press conference at 9 a.m. today on how new people moving to the county should be required to pay for the expanded services they want.

3. Headline: New law affects all students
Blurb: Vending machines at public schools will undergo a major change, replacing junk food with healthier food.
Lead: Today, the governor signs the law prohibiting the sale of junk food at public schools.

4. Headline: City policeman life saved by bullet-proof vest
Blurb: Thomas E. Richardson almost lost his life if he was not protected by his bullet-proof vest.
Lead: Last night, Thomas E. Richardson almost lost his life after receiving an anonymous phone call about a suspicious person loitering behind a restaurant at 640 Aloma Avenue.

5. Headline: Innovative program saves lives
Blurb: Innovative program called "Project Reassurance" saves three lives.
Lead: Each day, elderlies of the program calls Dorothy Morovchek, a clerk, and two aides at the police department between 7 and 9 a.m.

6. No cornea transplants without relatives consent
Blurb: If you are blind or going blind then you may have to wait longer to receive cornea transplants.
Lead: There is a decision issued today saying that medical examiners can no longer remove corneas from the eyes of the deceased without the permission of relatives.