Investigative Journalism Checklist
Find an issue that will matter to others. Decide on the angle of your piece.
- Present background knowledge on issue (could be the at beginning for a lead)
- Include anecdotes (stories, and examples)
- Include 2 direct quotes (from the interviews conducted)
- Adhere to journalistic tone
- Use a story to teach a lesson, comment on a social issue, and/or develop a point of view.
- Incorporates transitional phrases
- Circles back to central idea/issue or leaves the reader feeling a sense of closure at the ending
- Uses paragraphs as a way to organize your article and best bring out the meaning of your story and reach the audience
- Uses action, dialogue, details, inner thinking to convey an issue, idea or lesson
- Uses specific details and figurative language to help the reading understand.
- Varies tone to match the variety of emotions
- Uses resources to check spelling
- Varies sentence structure and correctly punctuates dialogue correctly (especially when including interviews)
Please submit a copy of your paper via google docs by Sunday, November 2. Additionally you need a print copy for your portfolio. Be sure to put a proper heading on ALL work. See Below.
Kathy Vogel
2ndh hour
November 2, 2014
Investigative Journalism
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