JRN 300: Weekly Story Reminder

Don't forget that your weekly stories:

• Should be about something in your beat area
• Should be about a trend or issue, and not an event or happening
• Must have a topic pre-approved by me
• Should have a range of sources, as noted in earlier posts
• MUST have at least three human sources who you interviewed
• Should be reported ENTIRELY first-hand, with interviews done directly by YOU and stats and data YOU found yourself. No citations of other media, articles, books, etc. 
• Should include pictures, charts and/or fact boxes created by YOU, and not some other source
• Pictures and charts must have captions and an attribution line: photo by Charlie Brown, illustration by Joe Schmo, etc.
• Will be published to a public news Web site! Make sure sources understand what they offer will be used for a public news Web site. This is NOT just for a class!