Assignment:  Create a multimedia weather story, similar to your election stories. Find an angle and flesh it out. Get one man-on-the-street multimedia element (video/audio/photos with quotes) and include at least one useful link to a weather-related resource. Focus on finding a clear angle and back it up with your lede, nut graf, one expert quote and couple of people quotes. This is an individual assignment, due on TNJN.com on Nov. 18.

Good examples from last semester:

Spring has sprung in East Tennessee

Rain makes carriage driving difficult for champion Haislip

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Weather resources:

Forecasts, maps, and more: Weather in Knoxville

Need more weather-related data?

National Climatic Data Center

World Climate data

Farmer's Almanac

Graph/Chart

To make your weather graph/chart look for weather-related data from NOAA.org or

Then follow these instructions to create the chart/graph using Excel.

Additional Information about covering the weather

 

Weather Reporting as Beat Journalism

The Citizen Meteorologist

How's the Weather on the Web?

Man-on-the-street (MOS) examples

Lawrence Journal-World photos with quotes

Are you concerned about heating costs this winter?

NorthWest Cable News -- Man on Street Interviews

Jeff Schell, an editor at NWCN (in 1998-99) takes to the street of Westlake Mall in Seattle to interview Seattlites about their knowlege of NorthWest Cable News.

There are also some great examples of funny, quarky MOS on the CW Arkansas