JOUR 215 Notes 11 8 18 - Chandler PDF

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11/8/18 Today’s Topic: Using Details to Tell Stories Breaking News: Thousand Oaks, California, Shooting ● Location: College aged bar ● 12 people killed ● People know the name of the shooter. He was in the marines and suffered from PTSD. Drove his mom’s car to the bar ● LA Times ➢ Ad on the page is relevant to the story ➢ Tell you what they know and what they don’t know (transparency) first thing on the page ➢ Make it easy to know what’s going on. Each story is a single screen on mobile phones ● Thousand Oaks, CA, is ranked the 3rd safest city in the U.S. ● Sheriff’s last words was to his wife on the phone, saying goodnight Reading about Crows ● When everyone has a story, how do you choose detail? ● Author Dan Barry uses a strong central character and follows her experiences to open and close the story ● Dan Barry: “So here was Ms. (Joy) Sacopulos, prowling Terre Haute streets in her unmarked Cadillac. In the back seat, her latest issue of Birds & Blooms magazine in the front, her pistol, her ammo, her resolve” ● Joy Sacopulos- joined the Terre Haute Crow Patrol after seeing a car so thoroughly coated with droppings that is driver had to steer with his door open and his head peering out ● Union Hospital- spent more than $100,000 on crow clean-up, which included power-washing the parking lots ● Clabber Girl baking powder company- a crew Animals in Zanesville Zoo ● Author Chris Jones- “I wanted to know what it was like to be a small-town Ohio cop creeping through the woods, with a night falling and a storm blowing in, looking for tigers” ● Jack Hanna, the famed wildlife expert and the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo, would later tell an old story about an escaped tiger

● Death toll- two gray wolves, two grizzly bears, one macaque monkey, eighteen tigers, one baboon, eight lionesses, six black bears, nine lions, and three mountain lions. All were buried in a mass grave on Thompson’s farm ● Sgt. Steve Blake went back to his substation and began typing a report that even he had trouble believing. Deputy Jonathan Merry had already volunteered to work an extra night shift. He collected his soaked notepad off the Kupchak's front step, drove back into Zanesville, and caught a burglar Using Details to Tell Stores ● The power of detail ● Show, don’t tell: xperienced storytellers do this. They use detail to draw comparisons, then use it to show differences in scale and impact ● Reporters may have a point of view, but detail doesn’t have an opinion...