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TVRD 151 Radio News Production

This course is an in-depth study of radio programming for news. Students will design, develop, and produce a news format radio show. Students will research, conduct interviews, write scripts, voice, and edit news segments. The emphasis will be on writing for radio, interview techniques, script format, the ethics of radio news production, news gathering techniques, radio story line up, the art and craft of story production, and announcing the news. Students will work as a team throughout the semester.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

TVRD 150

Hours Weekly

4

Course Objectives

  1. 1. Use a broadcast news model to design audio messages.
  2. 2. Discuss the job functions of a radio news team.
  3. 3. Engineer audio console in a professional radio station.
  4. 4. Interview newsmakers and witnesses to news events.
  5. 5. Analyze professional news radio productions.
  6. 6. Conduct complex field recordings using advanced interview techniques.
  7. 7. Research, write, and voice radio news scripts for possible air on internet radio station.
  8. 8. Provide peer feedback on student news productions.
  9. 9. Demonstrate the use of microphones, audio recording techniques, and audio-only editing.
  10. 10. Demonstrate proficiency in intermediate audio editing and publish final project to internet radio station.
  11. 11. Demonstrate an understanding of copyright law.

Course Objectives

  1. 1. Use a broadcast news model to design audio messages.
  2. 2. Discuss the job functions of a radio news team.
  3. 3. Engineer audio console in a professional radio station.
  4. 4. Interview newsmakers and witnesses to news events.
  5. 5. Analyze professional news radio productions.
  6. 6. Conduct complex field recordings using advanced interview techniques.
  7. 7. Research, write, and voice radio news scripts for possible air on internet radio station.
  8. 8. Provide peer feedback on student news productions.
  9. 9. Demonstrate the use of microphones, audio recording techniques, and audio-only editing.
  10. 10. Demonstrate proficiency in intermediate audio editing and publish final project to internet radio station.
  11. 11. Demonstrate an understanding of copyright law.