The Process Behind the Assignment

It took me awhile to come across the Newhouse III story because I was following several other potential stories. My first story idea was the Primary elections for County Executive. I had trouble contacting a source for my story and there was a lack of natural sound for this story. My second story was going to be Patriotic Day/attendance figures, or something relating to Saturday's football game against Illinois but I couldn't get a hold of a source. I made one contact, Pat Campbell, but he referred me to another person in marketing, but I could not get a hold of her. Finally I decided to do a story on Newhouse III. I immediately e-mailed Dean Rubin to see if I could interview him on the topic. He got back to me right away so I had my source covered. I then got natural sound of construction and prepped for my interview. I came up with a list of questions and topics I wanted to cover with Rubin. I interviewed the Dean then and got a lot of good sound from Dean Rubin's interview. From there I listened to the entire interview and decided the best sound I had was about John Roberts as the keynote speaker. I cut down the interview to the sound I wanted and captured it on the computer. I wrote my script to the sound, had Professor Nicholson look over it, and then I made the changes. I recorded my part, captured it, and edited it all together. I was able to cover everything I wanted to in my wrap, through the use of two sound bites.