My First Radio Story!
Posted on | November 11, 2008 |
This is my first “reporter’s piece.” That means I was given an assignment, usually just a small clip or announcement, and then I decide who to call and what to ask. I record the interviews, edit the audio and then write the story. I write the anchor’s intro (not included here) and then once my script has been approved, I record it. I take my story and edit in the audio and that is what is here.
The process is a controlled chaos. My adrenaline pumps as I write and re-write, scrap pieces, shuffle through my mess of papers and notes and edit my story.
This aired on November 6, 2008.
At the midpoint in the show Mark Mericle, the news director used this plug: “Coming up another state report asserting that spraying for the light brown apple moth poses no danger to the publics health. Critics debunk it.”
The anchor intro (I wrote): “California State officials released another report this week saying there is no conclusive link between the pesticides used to kill a crop-eating moth and the hundreds of residents of Monterey and Santa Cruz that got sick after the pesticide was sprayed on their communities. Jared Marchildon Reports.”
Any searing questions, succulent suggestions and brutal critiques will be warmly welcomed. “Nice jobs” and “good works” will be viewed as “you either didn’t think anything or you think something and are holding back.”
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