Videojournalism, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 4 Finding a Story

Josh Meltzer, Rochester Institute of Technology Ken Kobré, San Francisco State University

DOI: 10.4324/9781003272380-4

Lucy Nicholson, working on a story about the Naked Cowboy, who sings in Times Square in his underwear. The Cowboy’s backstory turned out even more interesting. (For more details on the Naked Cowboy story see Chapter 15 “Editing the Video”) (Photo by Jassim Ahmad)

Now that you’ve learned what makes great storytelling, how do you actually go about finding possible stories and evaluating their potential for your video and multimedia journalism projects?

Sometimes a story comes from the videojournalist’s ...