1. Covering speeches:a mainstay of community journalism Tommy Thomason and Andrew Chavez

2. The role of the journalist at a speech abstracting

4. Noting details of the meeting

5. Post-speech speaker interview

6. Reaction of the crowd

8. And what if the story will be almost a week old by the time the paper comes out?

9. Writing the speech story The typical speech story: The lead: who said what 2ndgraf: follow up the lead/id the speaker/background as needed 3rdgraf: direct quote Then:Organize by topics in descending order of importance; use direct/indirect approach

11. Back into the lead: In an address to the Jonestown Rotary Club Thursday…

12. Tell your readers what the speaker thinks or feels or believes instead of what he/she said

14. Statement plus attribution

15. Speaker plus audience plus statementThree types of speech leads