Journalism 133: Prof. Craig: Working With Reporters

Working With Reporters

The assigning editor's job goes beyond just fixing mistakes in a story.  Editors must work with reporters on generating and developing story ideas that are relevant to their outlet's audience.  In this exercise you will work in the groups below -- one of you as the reporter and one as the editor. 

You will work together to take a national or international story and give it a local angle for a story to be written for this class.  For the purposes of this assignment, "local angle" isn't limited to something specific to SJSU, but rather to our local area. 

The two of you should work together on choosing a story idea, an approach that localizes the story and a preliminary list of people you would seek to interview.  You will meet in your assigned groups for the remainder of the class period, then present your story ideas next time.  I will remain on the Zoom call in case you have questions, but I need to end class at 11:30 a.m. today. 

Groups for exercise:

Group No.	Role	Name
1	Reporter	Brandon Twomey
	Editor	Richy Zajic
2	Reporter	Madison Fagundes
	Editor	Kah Mun Chia
3	Reporter	Sarah Dwyer
	Editor	Joronica Vinluan
4	Reporter	Sandra Santos-Cruz
	Editor	Aniija Gaines
5	Reporter	John Bricker
	Editor	Saumya Monga
6	Reporter	Briana Mathaw
	Editor	Shiri Marwaha
7	Reporter	Darwin Saquilayan
	Editor	Joanna Chavez
8	Reporter	Rainier de Fort-Menares
	Editor	Christine Stevens
9	Reporter	Estevan Lopez
	Editor	Nikoo Parsizadeh