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Week 2 - Assignment

Sports/Entertainment News Story and Broadcast Script

Sports and entertainment news stories are truly tailored for specific audiences. The ability to make stories of this type fresh and interesting is the mark of a good sports or entertainment journalist. For this week, you will write a 450- to 500-word print news story for a magazine feature and a 3- to 5-minute broadcast script about a sports or entertainment journalism topic. You will choose an issue surrounding a famous sports player or an entertainer who is currently in the news and prepare the story for a real-world sports or entertainment magazine and for a televised sports or entertainment news program. Your angle to the story must be different from what you have seen in the news, and you must seek different sources of information from what you have heard on broadcast programs.

The assignment must

· Identify the media outlets where the story will appear.

· Summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story.

· Compare two opposing opinions about the topic derived from CQ Researcher.

· Incorporate one visual element to enhance the story.

The print news story must be written according to the Week Two Magazine Feature Template and it must adhere to Associated Press (AP) Style. The broadcast script must adhere to the Broadcast Story Script Template . Be sure to provide proper attribution for all sources of information included in the story (facts, statistics, images/video, and opinions) and list each of the sources in the Story Source List Template . View the Using Templates document for assistance with modifying templates.

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Saving Your Work: To maintain the formatting of your work, you are strongly encouraged to save your assignment as a PDF file. View Saving a Word Document as a PDF for steps on how to do this.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.