Week 4: Assignment and Student Response
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Week4-Assignment1.docxWeek 4 - Assignment
Environmental/Cultural News Story and Broadcast Script
In today’s society, we hear a lot of discussion about the environment and about cultures. Environmental journalism and cultural journalism require that the journalist be committed to educating the public about aspects of each topic that audiences may know very little about.
This assignment requires you to choose a topic related to the environment or a specific culture. You will be writing the story as a feature for a national newspaper and preparing a script for a television program that appears on the Public Broadcasting Service. You will write a 450- to 500-word print story and a 3- to 5-minute broadcast script about the issue that you chose.
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
Newspaper 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.
Check It! Your assignment must be submitted through
Grammarly
prior to submission.
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.
