The implementation of a broadcast journalism program in the high school setting is a complex effort that requires lessons in reporting, videography, sound engineering, editing, and staff management components.
Students who are trained in broadcast journalism will graduate with many marketable skills that they can use in any profession. According to the leading scholastic broadcast advisers in the nation, there currently is no staff manual uniquely created for staffs to guide a group of students.
This project, a broadcast staff manual and accompanying WordPress website, with resources and guidelines for developing a broadcast program based on research and applied practices, will serve as a guideline for existing and developing scholastic broadcast journalism programs.
The manual will include a mission statement, suggested staff goals for the year, a sample deadline schedule, staff position descriptions and flow chart, style rules, coverage ideas, class and studio expectations, grading policy, staff building suggestions, and basic instructional handouts.
(This is the opening to the proposal presented for the graduate studies final project.)
