Meetings

Here is a meeting preview.

Here is an explanatory meeting preview story.

Here is an average story that came out of a meeting. (This is not an actual meeting story.)

Beat communities and newspapers

Winter Park/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Will & James

Oviedo/Detroit Free-Press
Hannah & Lea Anne

Maitland/Las Vegas Sun
Monique & Katie

Winter Springs/Louisville Courier-Journal
Carmen & Manny

Ocoee/Kansas City Star
John & Lauren

Offbeat meeting example

Here's an offbeat meeting story. It's an example of how sometimes the real news has nothing to do with the agenda.

Florida's Open Meetings Laws

Here is information about Florida's open meetings laws.

Census Data

Get to know your beat community through Census data.

What story ideas come to mind?

Does anything surprise you?

How might this information impact your list of sources?

Questioning officials

Beat Community Background

Today you will receive your beat community - a self-governing city in Orange or Seminole County.

The possible communities include:
Winter Park, Oviedo, Maitland, Winter Springs and Ocoee.

You will cover this community for the rest of semester and pitch story ideas about what is happening. You will be competing with another classmate on these pitches. We will go over examples in class. Good luck and have fun.