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Schedule

Sept. 4 -Thursday – [specially arranged first class, 12:20-1:15 p.m.] Introductions. Going over syllabus; on beats, assigning beats, and AP Style. Community Contact sheet assignment.

Sept. 5 - Friday - Class meets with Prof. Somani, (Prof. Cumming at SPJ in Atlanta) on finding and polishing story ideas, budget lines. Community Contact list assignments handed out.
Reading: this week's News-Gazette and new September Rockbridge Advocate.
 

Sept. 8- Monday –
News Quiz
Discuss cultivating good sources.
Broadcast 263 students in lab for iNews training.
AP Style assignment.
"Week-aheads" due Tuesday, Sept. 9, by 4 p.m.

Sept. 10- Wednesday- News meeting .

Sept. 11- Thursday - Lab: Organizational/orientation meeting for Rockbridge Report (RR) in lab, 1:25, only about 20 minutes.

Sept. 12 -Friday -- Workshop on using cameras. Meet in 302. (Somani).(For Monday, read "Making Sound Observations" chapter, copies in Green Room.)

Sept. 15- Monday -- Reporting tips -- How to find and frame stories, and getting action, quotes/soundbites, emotion (Somani/Cumming). (Reading for Friday: handout on "Interviewing")

Sept. 17 - Wednesday-  Story meeting.

Sept. 19 –  Friday- Interviewing -- secrets of good interviewing for print and broadcast (Somani).  [AP Style assignment due.] Reading for Monday: "Cultivating Sources" (Ch. 5 of News in a New Century, in Green Room. Take one.)

Sept. 22- Monday -- Topic: Finding and developing sources

Sept. 24- Wednesday -- Story meeting.

Sept. 26- Friday -- Videotape examples of "Newsmakers."

Sept. 29 -- Monday - Topic: Gathering Information (News in a New Century, Ch. 4) [Community Contact List updates due (hard copies with handwritten changes)]

Oct. 1 - Wednesday -- Story meeting

Oct. 3 - Friday- Michael Todd instructs in Avid suite. Planning Election Day coverage.  Read for Monday: Writing News Packages, and Writing Broadcast News (pick up outside Prof. Somani's office)

 Oct. 6- Monday- Prof. Somani: Writing for broadcast packages.

[Oct. 7 - Tuesday - Turn in draft of stories for Oct. 16, not for grade (yet); re-write on Oct. 14 will be graded. No copy editing session today.]

Oct. 8- Wednesday -Quiz, and story meeting. [Cumming away]

READING DAYS - OCT. 9-12

Oct. 13 -Monday - Go over quiz. View and critique "Rockbridge Report" broadcast of Oct. 2.

Oct. 14 - Tuesday - Copy editing sessions resume, usual time.

Oct. 15 - Wednesday - Story meeting. 

Oct. 17 - Friday - No class.

Oct. 20- Monday – Election Day planning.

Oct. 22 - Wednesday - News meeting

Oct. 24 - Friday - View & critique latest Rockbridge Report broadcasts (Prof. Somani)

Oct. 27-Monday-- Broadcast profiles (Prof. Somani)

Oct. 29- Wednesday -- Story meeting (for Election Day coverage)

Oct. 31- Friday - Review packages, and Rockbridge Report (Prof. Somani)

Nov. 3 - Monday- Planning Election Day reporting, writing B matter.

Nov. 4 - Tuesday- Election Day (Cover, and be in lab by 6 p.m. Mandatory Attendance by all)

Nov. 5 - Wednesday- Story meeting

Nov. 6- Thursday- NO ROCKBRIDGE REPORT

Nov. 7- Friday - No class.

Nov. 10 - Monday - "Weird Bob" video. Video storytelling.
            [Courthouse  assignment handed out.]

Nov.12 - Wednesday-- Story meeting

Nov. 14 - Friday-  Review Rockbridge Report broadcasts (Somani)

Nov. 17- Monday -- Class visits Business Reporting class, Room 215, to hear guest speaker Dagen McDowell, Fox Business anchor.

Nov. 19-Wednesday- Last story meeting [for RR of Dec. 4] - [Courthouse assignment due]

Nov. 21 -- Friday -- Review RR TV. 

Nov. 22- 30- Sunday- Sunday- THANKSGIVING BREAK

Dec. 1- Monday -- Broadcast profiles (Prof. Somani) [Beat directories due, e-mail file.]

Dec. 3- Wednesday- No class. Dinner at Prof. Cumming's house, 6 p.m.

Dec. 5 -Friday -- Review last RR TV (Dec. 4) [Beat memos due, drop off printout or e-mail file.]