How to Find Stories as a TV News Reporter

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BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about where we find stories. You need a story idea or something to talk about long before you get to 6 o'clock in the evening. You don't have anything to talk about, you don't have a story. So where do you find stories? There are a lot of different places you can find stories especially your own life. You have friends, you have family. They all have different professions. They all have different hobbies, and many of those things are very interesting. Your uncle is in--let's say your uncle is an accountant. How would you relate that to the budget? What's going on with the budget? The state budget every January, they talk about--in the state of the state, the governor talks about the state budget. Well, cities have budgets. Government--and all the stuff kind of spawns other ideas. So you find these stories in your own life, in the lives of your family and friends and in more mundane areas like if you're hurting for an idea, pick through the newspaper. There's a lot of information in the newspaper about a lot of different subjects. Many of those subjects can spawn new story ideas in your own head. There are also great many news services out there available to reporters to help them find other ideas. For example the AP wires, everywhere in the world, there is a reporter somewhere typing out a story on a computer. And he shares that with every other reporter, just like we share our ideas and our stories with other reporters around the world. And those information ends up on the AP wire which you can use to generate new ideas. There's other TV stations; you might look at what your competition is doing. That might spawn a new idea or a new angle on a different story. So there's the Internet. The Internet is full of everything you can imagine. If you can think of it, it's probably on the Internet somewhere. So spawn around through different areas of the Internet looking for different ideas on business and politics and crime, on just any kind of fun and interesting thing that you might find interesting or that your friends or family might find interesting and take those ideas and think about how to turn them into stories.

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