Monday:
Wednesday:
Background stories on forest fires:
Background stories on Bay Area housing and affordability issues:
Background on elections and voter rolls:
Monday:
Wednesday:
Story planning and focus:
Time to join Investigative Reporters and Editors. Then search through their tip sheets by project topic or for project/story planning. Be prepared on Wednesday, Oct. 10 to share something you found.
Finding information:
The art of the interview:
Framing key questions: the initial pitch, minimum and maximum stories
Data analysis challenges
Workbench check-in
No lecture Monday. Project memo review and each team works on developing their minimum story and building out their data/document log and a back-out schedule.
Tools overview and hands-on practice.
Overview
Tabula
CSVKit
Excel review
Reporting challenges
Longform story structures
Overview on finding people
Interviewing practice
In-class work
Story structures
Longform story structures:
Story-telling, framing the top equals an outline
Visualizing data for story
Story tops and structures hands-on
Data analysis and next steps
Visualizing data for story