Slideshow

I am still figuring out who I am doing, I have contacted several people. I will update this post when I have more information.
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Update: Today I met up with Alex Ebstein who co-owns Nudashank (an independent art gallery) with Seth Adelsberger. She also writes a Baltimore arts blog called There were Ten Tigers and writes art reviews for citypaper.

Article Review

"Dionne Warwick, Cake, Robin Thicke to headline Artscape" by Chris Kaltenbach with the Baltimore Sun.

The story is about Artscape---it covers who will headline, what this years budget was, and changes from last year.

quote: "We knew we were going to take little hits in various funding streams," said Bill Gilmore, executive director of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts.

The reporter explains that Saturn withdrew their support as sponsers because of GM's financial problems--but also says that this year there will be a shuttle service.

I wonder where they got the money to have a shuttle since they have less money this year than last year--and last year they did not have a shuttle.

I would have included why they decided to have a shuttle this year despite having less money.

I think that the story could be better if the reporter added links of where to read more about the performers, artists, vendors etc.

Non-Linear story approach

• I did an interview yesterday for one of my two stories.
• I have enough information from two other sources on two separate stories that I still need to choose from.
• I think I am going to use the basic template that you have provided us.
• I want to experiment with a few other templates before choosing the one that you have provided.

video editing post

I watched ABC's Nightline. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/ It was a story on protests in Iran and it is on the front page. All of their shots were edited so that extra footage like the camera moving was cut out. They used a variety of camera angles to show how large the crowds were. They used closeups on specific people that they interviewed as well as signs of protest. The editing was pretty fast paced which created a heightened sense of urgency.

audio story ideas

-intro to oil painting class on Monday night at the Creative Alliance
- "summer camp" at the AVAM


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I ended up doing my audio story on KERPLUNK! a free Saturday art program for families in the Highlandtown area at the Creative Alliance. I had thought originally that I would try to use Kerplunk for my slideshow story but decided to use it for my audio story instead.

Recent news story on beat hw

The article "Exhibit focuses on different angles of city's east side" is about an photography exhibition at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture that includes photos that depict the east side of Baltimore."We wanted to show what makes the east side special, what is unique about its history," says Michelle Joan Wilkinson, director of collections and exhibitions at the Lewis Museum.

I think that the story is good but at some point I would have compared the east side of Baltimore to the west side in order to further distinguish it as a particularly unique area. But I think the reporter covered a lot and used good sources.

3 Hard news leads into broadcast leads

1.ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Masked and heavily armed Mexican soldiers battled outlaws holed up in a hillside mansion in a four-hour shootout that had tourists cowering in hotels nearby.

rewrite: Mexican military officials are investigating a shoot out that left 16 dead.

2. WASHINGTON — Concerned by North Korean behavior that she called “very provocative and belligerent,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview aired Sunday that the United States was considering putting North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a clear signal that any slim hopes once held for improved relations had been dashed.

rewrite: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in recent interview that the US was considering putting North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

3. BAGHDAD — Five American contractors have been detained in Baghdad in connection with the murder of another American contractor, a senior Interior Ministry official said Sunday.

rewrite: A senior Interior Ministry official said that five american contractors have been detained in Baghdad in connection with the murder of another American contractor.

Feature story ideas

I am trying to develop a story about the planned development on the station north art district. It would be a trend story because Maryland is trying to develop several districts for art. I am setting up an interview with a MICA student who gave me the idea for the story. After that I would like to interview someone from the development plan and then someone who owns a business that could be affected by the plan.

HW due Fri

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/design/31pain.html?_r=1&ref=design



This article fits the Wall Street Journal formula because it opens with a specific person and continues to broaden. The story has a nut graph in the third paragraph. The story also has a circle ending. Towards the end the woman, Mimi Torchia Boothby, is reintroduced and her story comes to a close.



opening: Mimi Torchia Boothby’s job as a technician puts her outside a wind tunnel every weekday at the Boeing plant south of Seattle, but in her free time two years ago she took up watercolors. Among her favorite subjects are cats, idyllic scenes of Italy — and, of course, Barack Obama, whose contemplative, sun-splashed portrait she completed a few weeks after his election as president.



nut graph: Perhaps not since John F. Kennedy, whose dusty portraits can still be seen in kitchens and barbershops and alongside the antique beer cans at bars like Manuel’s Tavern in Atlanta, has a presidency so fanned the flames of painterly ardor among hobbyist and professional artists.



circle ending: Ms. Boothby said she is now managing to make a little money on the side with her brushes and easel and credits Mr. Obama. “I think that portrait I did of the president was kind of a touchstone for my confidence, painting-wise,” she wrote in an e-mail message. “I’m not sure I would have been able to start doing commissions if I hadn’t gotten as warm a reception as I did for that one painting.”

HW Post

Feature leads and summary leads differ in that summary leads get straight to the point and usually cover hard news.

Examples of feature leads

• "Amid the chorus of accolades that have greeted Lincoln Center’s continuing physical transformation — in particular, the new Alice Tully Hall by Diller Scofidio & Renfro — a few discordant voices are raising an alarm with worries that Lincoln Center may be changing too much." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/arts/design/02land.html?_r=1&ref=design
• IT was a sunny Monday afternoon, and the scene around the yellow-and-orange cabanas at La Piaggia Beach Club was laid-back and effortlessly chic. Waiters brought trays of chilled rosé, goose pâté and “les mini cheeseburgers.” Women, wearing cunning coverups that manage to cover up nothing, dipped their manicured feet into the sand. http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/travel/31next.html?ref=travel