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Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Class 10
"Okay, we've mucked around for a few weeks. Now it's time to get back to real journalistic issues," Jonah said. "Investigative journalism! You come up with a story, investigate it, and write about it. I don't know how to make this any simpler for you people."
"Investigative reports are often some of your splashier stuff since you're theoretically uncovering something with your investigation, otherwise it would just be regular journalism. It could be exposing corruption in local government - which I won't talk about more in class, but if you want to hear more about my thoughts on the local government, listen to me on WTFH radio, Saturday nights - or proving that people in business are criminals, which tends to be more surprising than you'd think, or that doctors are covering up malpractice... Basically, anything that people don't know, can't prove, or want to cover up, that's what an investigative reporter goes after."
"An investigative report often starts with one of two things: Sheer dumb luck or a tip, which is sometimes the same thing. One way, you just happen to be in the right place at the right time, overhear something that you need more information on, catch an interesting bit of information while researching something else, or just decide to start looking at something that's interested you for a while and it turns out there's more to it than you thought, something like that. The other way, somebody comes to you - you're their friend, you're somebody they know from your reporting, maybe you're just the first person they seen when they're trying to spread the word, who knows? Somebody comes to you, gives you some information, and you need to know more and bring it out to the world as a news report."
"Once you start down the road of investigative reporting, you usually find yourself staying in that area. It's fun, it's professionally rewarding, it's flashier and gets your name out there more often, and you find yourself with sources who are willing to give you more tips. It can also be dangerous, depending on what you're investigating, so it does require you to have some common sense. Several of the people in this room have enough common sense to make that work. Congratulations to them."
"This is going to be the first of two weeks spent on investigative journalism. This week, you're going to figure out what kind of subject you want to investigate. There should be no shortage of them here in Fandom, so have fun with that. Over the course of the next week, do your investigations. Spend time in the library, interview people, come up with the story that you're going to write next week when we'll talk about how to organize that information into an article."
"Investigative reports are often some of your splashier stuff since you're theoretically uncovering something with your investigation, otherwise it would just be regular journalism. It could be exposing corruption in local government - which I won't talk about more in class, but if you want to hear more about my thoughts on the local government, listen to me on WTFH radio, Saturday nights - or proving that people in business are criminals, which tends to be more surprising than you'd think, or that doctors are covering up malpractice... Basically, anything that people don't know, can't prove, or want to cover up, that's what an investigative reporter goes after."
"An investigative report often starts with one of two things: Sheer dumb luck or a tip, which is sometimes the same thing. One way, you just happen to be in the right place at the right time, overhear something that you need more information on, catch an interesting bit of information while researching something else, or just decide to start looking at something that's interested you for a while and it turns out there's more to it than you thought, something like that. The other way, somebody comes to you - you're their friend, you're somebody they know from your reporting, maybe you're just the first person they seen when they're trying to spread the word, who knows? Somebody comes to you, gives you some information, and you need to know more and bring it out to the world as a news report."
"Once you start down the road of investigative reporting, you usually find yourself staying in that area. It's fun, it's professionally rewarding, it's flashier and gets your name out there more often, and you find yourself with sources who are willing to give you more tips. It can also be dangerous, depending on what you're investigating, so it does require you to have some common sense. Several of the people in this room have enough common sense to make that work. Congratulations to them."
"This is going to be the first of two weeks spent on investigative journalism. This week, you're going to figure out what kind of subject you want to investigate. There should be no shortage of them here in Fandom, so have fun with that. Over the course of the next week, do your investigations. Spend time in the library, interview people, come up with the story that you're going to write next week when we'll talk about how to organize that information into an article."
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