Meet 3: News Gathering and Interviewing

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Virna Mustika (1988203067)

6A2 English

Vocabulary logs 

1. Incorporate /inˈkôrpəˌrāt/

Part of speech : verb

Indonesian : menggabungkan

Definition : take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include.

e.g., “We will incorporate your suggestion in the new plan”.

Synonyms : embody, include, contain, comprise, embrace.

 

2. Ploy /ploi/

Part of speech : noun 

Indonesian : siasat

Definition : a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

e.g., “I think this is just a government ploy to deceive the public”.

Synonyms : ruse, tactic, move, device, trick ​

 

3. Wire /ˈwī(ə)r/

Part of speech : noun

Indonesian : kabel

Definition : an electronic listening device that can be concealed on a person.

e.g., “He disconnected the wire from the clock”.

Synonyms : cable, rope, cord, string, lace

 

4. Consolidate /kənˈsälədāt/

Part of speech : verb 

Indonesian : mengkonsolidasi

Definition : make (something) physically stronger or more solid.

e.g., “She hoped that marriage would consolidate their relationship”.

Synonyms : combine, unite, merge, integrate, fuse

 

5. Intended /inˈtendəd/

Part o speech : adjective 

Indonesian : disengaja

Definition : planned or meant.

e.g., “The book is intended for college student”.

 

 

 

Summary 

News Gathering and Interviewing Conducting the interview, understand what news is, what makes facts newsworthy, and how to organize your facts and how to incorporate quotes into your story, begin the process of actually gathering the news.There are several ways that news is gathered by reporters and editors: 

Eyewitness Accounts, Events calendars/Futures books, Press releases, Stringers/freelance contributors, Beat system, Wire services, Interviews, Background research.

This unit will focus on news gathering techniques with a special emphasis on interviewing skills and writing the story from the information gathered from interviews and other sources. News Gathering, the newsgathering technique that was most likely used to get the information, such as, The Events Calendar in order to keep up with what is going on at your campus, most likely your principal or the campus secretary keeps a master calendar in the office, after thatBackground Research before composing questions to ask during an interview, it is often necessary to do somebackground research, either on the topic to be discussed or on the person you are about to interview, next Investigative Reporting Assignment: This assignment involves gathering information and checking your sources for accuracy choose an administrator, counsellor or teacher/lecturer whom you do not presently have for a class and find out the following information without ever asking him or her a single question, then Conducting the Interview is all methods of news gathering are important, but it is through the interview thatreporters get the “meatiest” information. A good interview holds the key to a good story, one that people will want to read, next step Preparing for the Interview directions: Your first interview story will be with someone in your journalism class. your teacher will pair you up or let you choose a partner to interview. You will be interviewing someone and someone will be interviewing you. the first part of this assignment will be for you to complete the following form as completely as possible. This will help your partner with his or her “background research”, so find out enough information about you to be able to write some good questions, and last writing the interview story directions: Using the preceding guide, write your interview story. Begin with an appropriate lead, alternate quotes and transitions, and end on a quote. Pay special attention to how you handle the quotes and attribution (said). 

 

Reflection 

For the most important of journalism is the practice of preparation to make an organized news and interview help transfer knowledge effectively between educators and student. Now, I realise that journalism effective teaching news Gathering and interviewing recognize students strength and make me as a student more confidence to use and learn English feature materials news in class or public. Student also me can make a news correctly and organized. So, to know what i want to do when i increase my knowledge about english and in the future when I became to be a teacher or journalist i know how to give the student effective of learningnews gathering and interviewing. for me the activites learning that make me know all about english is to know what i will learn like i summarize, memorize the course and distribution of english and check the grammar to know if my english is already good. hopefully this material can add knowledge and insight related to learning innovation for me to get better sense of the purpose of the material.