Every great broadcast news story starts with just an idea as its seed. No one can be a good journalist without having the ability to come up with story ideas.
I woke up Wednesday morning earlier than usual. I needed to find a good day-turn story idea with people that were able to be interviewed that day in order to make my assignment deadline. Since the story wouldn't air on the local station, fewer people were interested in lending me some of their time.
I found several ideas and started calling people. I made several calls but nobody was really coming through and I needed a story. I was getting desperate. The people that I thought would be most likely to give an interview weren't. I made so many calls that by the time I got the first call back agreeing to an interview, others called as well and I had to turn some away.
I went all over town and got what I needed to tell, I think, a good story on how gas price increases affect local business.
There is no magic bullet to finding stories; if there were, most journalists would be out of a job. Broadcast journalism starts with story ideas. No matter how good a journalist, if one doesn't have an idea then there will never be a great story.
Watch my story about gas price increases affecting one local business below.
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