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News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media, 7/e
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Exercise 14.1
Exercise 14.2

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Speeches and Press Conferences

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1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using an advance text of a speech?
2

Discuss the steps that a reporter should follow when covering a speech.
3

What questions must a reporter answer before writing a speech story?
4

Why do candidates, officials and other people hold press conferences?
5

What is a gang interview?
6

Discuss the development of the presidential press conference.
7

Discuss the procedures that reporters should follow in preparing for a press conference.
8

What is an advance?
9

Television reporters have an advantage over print reporters during a press conference because the speaker usually wants to be seen as well as heard. What can print reporters do to make themselves visible and heard?
10

How is covering a speech different from covering a press conference?