Radio Intros: 5 Examples Of Success Annotated Bibliography (Annotated Bibliography Sample)

Annotated Bibliography
Name
Course
Tutor’s Name
Date
1 Radio intros: 5 examples of success
MacAdam, A. (2018). Radio intros: 5 examples of success. NPR Training. Retrieved 5 March 2018, from http://training.npr.org/audio/radio-intros-5-examples-of-success
About the Author
Alison MacAdam works for the National Public Radio as a senior editorial specialist. She enables the NPR Training teams to improve NPR journalism and storytelling
Identification of the audience
The article targets trainee NPR journalists who need to learn how to create good radio stories introductions.
Summary of the content
The article provides a number of tips to trainee journalists on how to generate good and successful story introductions. The article recognizes that the ‘intros’ are hard to write properly, yet they are essential to the telling of a good story. The author breaks down a number of sample introductions for specific stories, and provides an analysis for why they are good.
Evaluation
I think that the article is concise and directly addresses the subject matter while supplying the reader with plenty of situational examples.
2. How to construct a compelling story
Reed, Brian (2014) - How to construct a compelling story. Video Archive - The Conference by Media Evolution. Retrieved 5 March 2018, from http://videos.theconference.se/brian-reed-how-to-construct-a-compelling-story
About the Author
Brian Reed is a producer at This American Life, a weekly public radio program and podcast. He gives an important insight into the components necessary for the telling of a good story.
Identification of the audience
The video targets potential storytellers, and presenters who want to improve on the quality of their presentation.
Summary of the content
In the video, presenter Brian Reed identifies the key elements in the telling of a good story. The elements identified are action reflection and stakes. The narrator goes on to identify how each of the three elements affects the telling of the story.
Evaluation
The use of the visual media makes this presentation more appealing than a simple article would have been. The presenter tackles each of the identified segments sequentially, making it easy for the viewer to absorb the argument.
1 How to write broadcast news stories
Weiss, J. (2018). How to write broadcast news stories. Ijnet.org. Retrieved 5 March 2018, from https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-write-broadcast-news-stories
About the Author
Jessica Weiss, a Buenos-Aires based journalist, presents the article.
Identification of the audience
The article targets practicing and trainee television and radio journalists.
Summary of the content
The article highlights several focal points for creating and presenting news items for television and radio journalists. The article provides a number of tips for both writing, organizing and presenting news items.
Evaluation
The article is very straight forward, and I particularly appreciate the bulleting of the main points.
2 Storytelling with sound
G, Emily. (2012). Storytelling with Sound. Vimeo. Retrieved 5 March 2018, from https://vimeo.com/blog/post/storytelling-with-sound
About the Author
Emily G. is a content editor and trainer at the video sharing website, Vimeo and its Vimeo Video School.
Identification of the audience
The audience targeted by the post is the participants of the Big Shorts Stillmotion filmmaking challenge.
Summary of the content
The blog post advices the participants of the Big Shorts filmmaking challenge on four main elements of audio, and how to incorporate them into the videos shot for the challenge.
Evaluation
The article is very brief, straightforward yet still informative. I especially liked the audio/video accompanying examples. I also found the tone of the article to be Very informal and catchy.
3 Interviewing Principles
Interviewing Principles. Retrieved 5 March 2018, from /itc/journalism/isaacs/edit/MencherIntv1.html
About the Author
The article does not present the author’s name. The article itself exists on the University of Colombia’s website.
Identification of the audience
The article targets student journalists learning the techniques for conducting journalism interviews for the media. It is specifically meant for the university of Colombia journalism students.
Summary of the content
The article presents the four techniques for conducting the two main types of interviews.
The article includes a journalistic anecdote concerning an interview. The article gives both bulleted systematic instructions on how to conduct the interviews and also the theoretical literature ...