{"id":1206,"date":"2018-12-04T02:32:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T02:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2019-02-06T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:01:24","slug":"top-news-exec-on-student-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2018\/12\/04\/top-news-exec-on-student-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CBS News President Visits Video Reporting Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Do less better” is the resounding advice from former CBS News President Andrew Heyward to Professor Sissel McCarthy\u2019s news video reporting students.<\/p>\n

\"Andy<\/a>Heyward came to class recently to critique student profile assignments and told students a more focused piece is always better.<\/p>\n

\u201cReport broadly by being relentless on the street and then ruthless as an editor,\u201d said Heyward, who urged students to find an angle and build a narrative arc around that.<\/p>\n

He also shared the one question reporters should ask more often: What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n

When someone answers that question Heyward says you often get a vivid detail or golden nugget that will make your piece memorable.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery story needs a great beginning and ending and a surprise or twist in the middle,\u201d Heyward added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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