Journ 2100 1st Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture I. Know your rightsII. When is original work created and covered by copyrightIII. Gray areaOutline of Current Lecturei. Investigative reportingii. Tipsiii. Power of public recordsiv. Examplesv. Beat reportersCurrent Lecturei. Investigative reportinga. Recounts investigative reporting techniquesb. Ex: Stl dispatch story on government scandal. State giving money to people who don’t deserve it. Shows checks to people. Documents helped them prove their story.c. Ex: Stl dispatch story shows billed filed through state to show how much the hours work exceeded how many hours it is possible to work in a day. d. Documents lead to good stories which lead to investigations which lead to changeii. Tipsa. Learn to listenb. Write simply and clearlyc. Be fearless when asking questionsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.d. Don’t take ‘no’ for an answere. Understand that people are not all good or bad f. Be accurateg. Challenge the conventional wisdomh. Learn to use public recordsiii. Power of public recordsa. Build strong foundations for news storiesb. Available to all citizens, not just journalistsc. Accessible through federal Freedom of Information laws and state “Sunshine” statutesd. Official records provide more credibility than a simple quotee. Records track what we left behind as we go through lifef. Hold a story together like mortar joining bricksg. Records confirm a story existsh. Find themi. Databasesii. Websites maintained by government agenciesi. Examples i. Property and land transfer deedsii. Campaign finance recordsiii. Payrolls, budgets, receiptsiv. Contracts, bid documentsv. Marriage licensesvi. Birth and death recordsvii. Criminal recordsviii. Military recordsiv. Examplesa. Michael brown story links to autopsyb. Attorney generals influenced to have less impact in their decisions. Shows documents to prove it. Also explains documents.c. Payday lenders argument is one-sided. The guy giving the presentation owned the company. Mary Still had a bill to limit these so they had the presentation around the time this bill was going to be voted on. Found a document that statedhe owned the company so they used this to write an article.v. Beat reportersa. Know where documents exist before dealing with a deadlineb. Jack Wagmani. Covered politics for STL post-dispatchii. Had a hunch about Kinder’s hotel staysiii. Found out it was being paid for with taxpayers moneyiv. Changed his decision not to run for governor when this story came