To help you develop this skill you are each required to submit five proposals for stories you would like to work on this semester. Writing the proposals requires that you develop an idea by justifying the story in solid journalistic terms, discuss visualization of the story, and contact sources. Two of your five story ideas will be produced into VO-SOT stories. Be VERY specific. You have to do research and gather facts before you know if your idea could become a viable news story.
News is, by definition, the reporting of NEW information.
If there are no unanswered questions or new information, you probably do not have a viable news story. Use the Internet, newspapers, magazines, television programs, and the library to gather information about the topic you are interested in. Most importantly, talk to people connected to the story for information. In your story proposal list the names of people and other sources you have consulted. Also indicate whom you plan to interview, for what purpose, and if the person agreed to appear on camera.