Team 3 Rundown Rationale

Team 3 Rundown Rationale

Our team consisted of Gino Zarrillo as the anchor, Rochelle Scott as the live reporter, and Kevin Belbey as the recorded reporter.

A1: Headlines

I decided to take the three most relevant stories in the newscast and list them in the order that they were placed in the newscast. The National Grid story was very timely, the $500,000 federal grant awarded to Syracuse to help attract low-cost airlines to Hancock International Airport was a big local story over the past 24hrs, and the Tsunami in Indonesia is a huge and recent international disaster.

A2: National Grid

Kevin did a great job on his National Grid story. I put this story as the lede because I thought that its timeliness and controversy were very newsworthy locally. National Grid has been campaigning to the New York Public Service Commission to increase the rate that customers pay for electricity service. They want to hike rates up to $361 million dollars, but many residents of Syracuse are against this hike with these difficult economic times. The ruling will be decided in January. This was the most relevant story in the newscast and had excellent soundbites.

A3: Cigarette Tax

I put this reader in the newscast because, again, like the story above, it has to do with money, it is controversial, and it is local. New York wants to tax the Indian reservations in upstate New York for cigarette sold to non-Indian customers. Different Indian reservations are trying to block this tax and a judge in Buffalo has just extended a temporary order blocking the tax.

A4: Hancock Airport

Rochelle did a nice job with this piece. It was added last minute into the rundown because Rochelle needed a sound bite…so I was going to throw the story away and she would have done another…but she got a soundbite for this one just in time. I think this story is very relevant because, again it is very local, and it is good news for the Airport and deals with money: a federal grant. I have a flow going here with local stories and the money that is involved with each.

A5: Oswego School Board

This piece was not intended to go in this rundown….this was supposed to be a piece about how Onondaga County had a shortage of poll workers for election day next week…and I had readers set to follow that having to do with elections….but no one would talk to Gino about this issue….so he had to grab this Oswego story last-minute. It is relevant though in that it has to do with the local community. The Oswego school board Tuesday night voted not to try to throw Francis Hoefer off the board. School board members called for his removal from the school board last month after he accused some board members of not paying their fair share of school taxes…so it was an interesting story at least. Gino did a great job putting this together last minute.

A6: Election

This reader just discusses how Kristen Gillibrand is leading her republican rival Joe DioGuardi by 23 points ONE week before election day. Timely local story.

A7: Biden

Biden, who has been campaigning in New York City for Democrats, says that even though political pundits believe the republicans take over the House, Biden says that the democrats will hold onto both the House and the Senate. Relates to the election theme.

A8: Indonesia

Anchor actuality by Gino. Very nice job, with an interesting personal account of what was seen during the Tsunami, which made the piece personal and moving.

A9: Haiti Disease

This was a nice reader about the cholera outbreak in Haiti. It goes with the international disasters and tragedy theme. The only unfortunate thing was that the death toll number kept changing and as I was editing I forgot to update number of deaths…so it was blank …but I think that was the downside to any reader I had.

A10: we cut didn’t have time to read the study about NYC noise and how it affects our health.

Kicker:

It was about an attack ad that was sent out to voters in Southern California. The republican candidate sent out an ad to voters with his opponent’s face on it and a scratch-and-sniff patch that smelled like garbage. It was a silly and odd story, but in keeping with the election theme…which is why it stood out to me.

Weather:

That worked out great. Gino read today’s forecast, tonight’s, tomorrow’s, the current weekend’s, and current forecasts.

Close:

Gino got us out in time.

Floater 1:

This was a story about a Utica woman who was driving to endanger her child, (who was killed in the crash at the fault of her mother), five years ago. The woman was just sentenced three years in jail. It was new on the wires so I just threw it in there…we never needed to use it.