Next, please start working on the pitch sheet for your second out-of-class story. Same parameters as the first. Your deadline will be no later than 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 20 by email to omars@msu.edu.
Then, you will have TWO practice story assignments to do. The first one is slugged MEETING. For this one, use information provided in Reporting For The Media 11th Edition, Ch. 15, Ex. 5, p. 326.
For this exercise, the city council is the Grand Ledge School Board. All relevant locations for this assignment are in the city of Grand Ledge.
Your deadline for MEETING will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 16, to omars@msu.edu.
The second one is slugged POLICE. For this one, use information provided in Reporting For The Media 11th Edition, Ch. 18, Ex. 2, p. 389).
For this exercise, the incident is taking place in Okemos. The store is also located in Okemos. The responding authorities are from the Ingham County Sheriff's Department.
Your deadline for POLICE will be no later than 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, to omars@msu.edu.
Now, the POLICE exercise is a bit different from previous practice stories, in that instead of being given a set of information, you are being given a mock police report form which to discern information, make sense of what happened and write your story.
For you to be able to figure things out, you need to know what military time is. The police report, like most police and fire reports, are written in military time, which differs somewhat from regular time.
In regular time, the daily clock is divided into two 12-hour clocks. For example, we have 12 hours of the morning (known as a.m.), and 12 hours of the afternoon (known as p.m.). The number indicates how many hours we are into the morning or afternoon. Like, 8 a.m. is eight hours into the morning. 2:30 p.m. is two hours, 30 minutes into the afternoon. Duh, right?
Now, let's compare that to military time. In military time, the daily clock is a single 24-hour clock, where the number indicates how many hours we are past midnight, and into the day.
For example, 0500 hours is equal to 5 a.m., since it's five hours into the day. 1430 hours is equal to 2:30 p.m., since 2:30 p.m. is 14 hours, 30 minutes after midnight.
The reports will list information in military time, but for the stories we must translate that info into regular time, since the latter is the time people in regular society use.
For this exercise, the city council is the Grand Ledge School Board. All relevant locations for this assignment are in the city of Grand Ledge.
Your deadline for MEETING will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 16, to omars@msu.edu.
The second one is slugged POLICE. For this one, use information provided in Reporting For The Media 11th Edition, Ch. 18, Ex. 2, p. 389).
For this exercise, the incident is taking place in Okemos. The store is also located in Okemos. The responding authorities are from the Ingham County Sheriff's Department.
Your deadline for POLICE will be no later than 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, to omars@msu.edu.
Now, the POLICE exercise is a bit different from previous practice stories, in that instead of being given a set of information, you are being given a mock police report form which to discern information, make sense of what happened and write your story.
For you to be able to figure things out, you need to know what military time is. The police report, like most police and fire reports, are written in military time, which differs somewhat from regular time.
In regular time, the daily clock is divided into two 12-hour clocks. For example, we have 12 hours of the morning (known as a.m.), and 12 hours of the afternoon (known as p.m.). The number indicates how many hours we are into the morning or afternoon. Like, 8 a.m. is eight hours into the morning. 2:30 p.m. is two hours, 30 minutes into the afternoon. Duh, right?
Now, let's compare that to military time. In military time, the daily clock is a single 24-hour clock, where the number indicates how many hours we are past midnight, and into the day.
For example, 0500 hours is equal to 5 a.m., since it's five hours into the day. 1430 hours is equal to 2:30 p.m., since 2:30 p.m. is 14 hours, 30 minutes after midnight.
The reports will list information in military time, but for the stories we must translate that info into regular time, since the latter is the time people in regular society use.
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