Instructions: 45 Broadcast Newswriting • Write your script using any word Assignment: Requirements: processing program • News story is based you choose. You are being given six different articles. upon the materials • Next, convert the provided. file to a PDF for Write a 90-second television news script that a news • The news story submission. anchor would read without video or as a voice-over while should run at 90 • Entries MUST be viewers would see the shots of the event in progress. seconds. Timing is uploaded between critical. Sept. 14 and Oct. Read through the articles and write a 90-second news 19, 2020, by 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. script. Read the script to yourself to time it. Type the script Central, 5 p.m. using any word processing program you choose and then Mountain, 4 p.m. save it as a PDF to submit it. Pacific, 3 p.m. Alaska and 1 p.m. Hawaii time. Guidelines: DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR • Select information from the articles. Do not add SCHOOL NAME information and do not make up additional facts or ON YOUR quotations. ENTRY. • Use at least three of the stories in your script; you do not need to use all of the provided stories. Prioritize stories WHAT according to news value. JUDGES • Accurately paraphrase any quotes you use, but quotes LOOK FOR are not necessary. • Broadcast news style • Judges will read the scripts aloud at a normal pace as • Well-written leads, they judge and time your script. original angle, focus • Use of news • Begin with an introduction, such as, “I’m Lauren Green, judgment and this is your morning news update.” Finish with some • Use of facts rather sort of closing, such as, “That’s a brief look at news. I’m than generalizations Lauren Green reporting.” (Contestants may use whatever • Use of colorful detail, quotations, sign off they feel best fits the piece). attribution, description • Appropriate order of stories, intros and closings; good transitions • Correct grammar and overall structure • Accuracy, completeness and elimination of extraneous material JEA NATIONAL STUDENT MEDIA CONTESTS • NHSJC FALL 2020 Article #1 From Target to Twitter, U.S. companies urge workers to vote by Richard Naidu, Reuters Sept. 6, 2020 (Reuters) - From Georgia to said in an internal memo on Aug. Companies including Tiffany Wisconsin to Ohio earlier this 27. “No (employee) will have to & Co., Levi Strauss and Walmart year, voters in primary elections choose between working their shift have offered paid time off or were stuck for hours in lines from or voting on or before Election flexible hours to workers. sharply reduced polling locations. Day.” “If any employee needs extra And the surge in absentee ballots Rules securing time off for time to vote or work at the polls, due to concerns over COVID-19. workers to vote vary by state. In they can simply work with their Heeding the stark warning New York, workers can be paid for managers on creating a flexible ahead of Election Day on Nov. up to two hours to vote, but they schedule,” a spokesman for 3, U.S. companies are aiming to may be required to give advance packaged food company Conagra facilitate what is expected to be notice. In Alabama, workers get Brands said. a chaotic 2020 U.S. presidential one hour of unpaid time. Some companies, including election. Twitter and Apple are “Voting is always important, Kraft Heinz and Target, have giving workers paid time off to get but the degree of partisan also set up websites to guide to ballot boxes. Starbucks and The polarization this year seems to be employees on registering to vote Gap’s Old Navy are urging staff to extraordinarily high. This makes and learning about candidates in volunteer at local polling stations. the stakes of the election unusually partnership with the League of Nearly 800 companies high as well,” said Jonathan Entin, Women Voters and the National including Nike, drugmaker Abbot professor of political science at Association of Manufacturers. Laboratories and technology Case Western Reserve University. Several states have warned in company Qualcomm are Partisan battles over expanding recent months that they may not participating in a CEO-led mail-in voting amid the pandemic have enough poll workers, with bipartisan activist group called have threatened to snarl the Maryland at one point estimating Time to Vote, which encourages political process where more it was short 14,000 people. In companies to give employees at than a third of registered voters response, companies including least a few hours off to vote. are expected to do so by mail or Target and The Gap have offered Starbucks Chief Executive vote early in person, according paid time off to volunteer as poll Kevin Johnson said last month to a survey published in August workers. Poll sites are expected that people could work out with from Democracy Fund + UCLA to fall short of volunteers as older managers when they can head Nationscape project. people who are more at risk to to polls, adding that the move President Donald Trump COVID-19 infection have typically is partly motivated by concerns for months has railed against staffed sites and are expected to about Black voter suppression. voting by mail citing unfounded stay home. Starbucks is also urging its over fraud concerns and last week The two companies have joined 200,000 U.S. employees register encouraged supporters to vote 150 others including Amazon. to vote from its mobile app. twice, once by mail and again com and Etsy to help sign up “We know that barriers exist, in person, compounding the 350,000 new volunteers through a notably in Black and Brown confusion ahead of Election Day. corporate-led campaign called the communities throughout the Nearly half of voters fear Civic Alliance. The group says on nation, that lead to systemic difficulties with voting in the U.S. its website that its goal is to drive racism and require greater voter presidential elections, according to historic voter turnout in 2020. access and protections,” Johnson a voter survey by Pew Research. JEA NATIONAL STUDENT MEDIA CONTESTS • NHSJC FALL 2020 Article #2 Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ earns modest $20.2M in biggest moviegoing weekend of the pandemic by Jake Coyle, The Associated Press, Sept. 7, 2020 NEW YORK – In a litmus test lower than in the U.S., began Not in the film’s favor: for American moviegoing during showing “Tenet” a week earlier. Audiences didn’t love Nolan’s the pandemic, Christopher Nolan’s The film debuted stateside latest time-bender. Moviegoers “Tenet” brought in an estimated with nightly preview screenings gave the thriller, starring John $20.2 million through the holiday Monday through Wednesday David Washington, Robert weekend in U.S. and Canadian before the official opening on Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki, theaters. Thursday. The studio included all a “B” on CinemaScore, the The result could be greeted of those showings in its estimated lowest grade for a Nolan release as either the rejuvenation of U.S. gross Sunday, along with expected since 2006’s “The Prestige.” cinemas – more Americans went returns for Monday’s Labor Day. Reviews (74% positive on Rotten to the movies this weekend than “Tenet” opened stronger in Tomatoes) have been good but far they have in nearly six months China. It debuted there with $30 from overwhelming. – or a reflection of drastically million in ticket sales from Friday “We are in unprecedented lowered standards for Hollywood’s to Monday. Internationally, “Tenet” territory, so any comparisons top blockbusters given the has exceeded expectations. In two to the pre-COVID world would circumstances. weeks of release, its overseas total be inequitable and baseless,” About 70% of U.S. movie is $126 million, with a global tally a statement from Warner Bros. theaters are open; those in thus far of $146.2 million. notes. the country’s top markets, Few onlookers felt it was Analyzing the film’s performance Los Angeles and New York, possible to gauge how “Tenet” was virtually impossible, says remain closed. Theaters that are would open. The film, which cost senior media analyst Paul operating are limiting audiences $200 million to make and at least Dergarabedian for data firm to a maximum of 50% capacity $100 million to market, will need to Comscore. He acknowledges to distance moviegoers from one get close to $500 million to break North America remains a more another. “Tenet” played in 2,810 even. challenged marketplace than North American locations, about In the film’s favor: It has the big Europe or Asia, but calls it a solid three-fourths of what most major screen almost entirely to itself. start in what will be lengthy run for releases typically launch in. Some multiplexes played “Tenet” “Tenet.” Warner Bros. declined to split as many as 100 times over the “It’s going to take a longer up U.S. and Canadian box office weekend. With little else on the time to assess this,” says receipts. Theaters in Canada, horizon, the studio is counting on Dergarabedian. “The win is just to where COVID-19 cases are much a long run for “Tenet.” have movies open.” JEA NATIONAL STUDENT MEDIA CONTESTS • NHSJC FALL 2020 Article #3 Wish Joins Amazon in Restricting Seed Sales Amid Global Seed Mystery Shift comes as agricultural authorities investigate the delivery of thousands of packets of seeds by Jon Emont and Jesse Newman, USA Today, Sept. 7, 2020 Amazon.com Inc. is barring foreign San Francisco-based Wish is a web species, weeds, pests or illnesses that sales of seeds into the U.S. after based market where customers can may hurt U.S.