CHAPTER 11
Covering Planned Events
CONTENTS
Interviewing Around the Press Conference
KEY WORDS
Cold Open
Feature Event
Grand Opening
Meeting
Objectivity
Political Campaign
Press Conference
Subjectivity
INTRODUCTION
On a slow day with no breaking stories and little spot news, planned events can save a newscast. The benefits of a planned event are easy to see: The location is given beforehand, the time and date are scheduled well in advance, background information of the event is given upfront, and phone numbers of the principal players ...
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