Journalism 24, Section 1
Storytelling for Television News (P/NP)
Joan Bieder
Wednesday 10:00-12:00, 101 North Gate Hall,
CCN: 48003This seminar examines the storytelling process in television news including hard news, news features, television news magazine segments and documentaries. It focuses on reporting and producing, structure of stories and script writing, as well as analysis of storytelling techniques. It concentrates on the major components of visual storytelling-sound, video sequences, writing, reporting and interviewing. In previous classes students have produced their own short television story. Only students with a good grasp of current events-on TV and in newspapers-need enroll. Enrollment is limited to twelve students. The seminar meets for eight weeks, beginning February 11, 2004 and ending April 7, 2004.
Joan Bieder is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism where she teaches courses in television news reporting, writing and producing. She was an ABC-TV network news producer for nine years in the evening news and documentary units. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Ms. Bieder has continued her own work, producing a series of videotapes on broadcast journalism and a film on female journalists in Asia. She frequently spends the summer in Singapore, doing research on freedom of the press, consulting with news staff at the Television Corporation of Singapore and lecturing undergraduates in communications at the Nanyang Technological University. She has studied the history of the Jewish Community in Singapore and recently published a lengthy article and produced a video tape about the community. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from Goucher College.
