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- Angelique Halliburton |
- Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:38
How do you find a story if you're in a news patch where big stories don't break every week?
If you're on the news team at BBC Radio York - covering North Yorkshire - then the answer is through hard work, ambition and a sense of curiosity about what's going on and what your audience is interested in.
The award-winning team were named best BBC Local Radio Station for Original Journalism at the Gillard Awards last October.
In this short film you can see how the team move beyond diary-led events to get strong, original stories using everything from an ideas book to magic paint!
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Yes, how do you get news? No-one at the BBC knows. Well, get the stories from PA or nick them from the local newspaper. That's what the BBC does right? Then say 'the BBC understands' in your report, suggesting it is an exclusive, even though the BBC hasn't had one of those since 1934.
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This is heartening stuff! At Birmingham City University we put great emphasis on students finding original news stories. On our postgraduate broadcast journalism course students have to work a 'patch', make contacts and really get to know their chosen community. It reaps dividends for them not just in the stories they find but in developing their newsgathering skills. It's too easy, otherwise, for them to sit in front of a computer and reversion stories that are available to every other journalist.
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