Beat Bingo

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Create five short Tweets/ X posts breaking down a beat story in simple terms. X1-strong lede X2-3 Key facts (five W’s and how) X4 -quote, statistic or source insight X5- closing takeaway.	Add your beat information to your Twitter/X page dedicated to your beat. Describe the stories you are interested in covering.	Ask an upperclass man Journalism student or Panther writer for beat reporting tips.(Post to blog)	On your Twitter/X page, follow five social media accounts related to your beat and engage with one throughout the semester. Show screenshots	Find three historic, local dates related to your beat (Post to blog)
Identify three key people for your beat and post to blog (list names, titles, emails, social media accounts). Examples can be influencers, news reporters, industry experts, etc.	Spot an item on a bulletin board or digital screen or message board on campus that’s relevant to your beat (take a pic and upload it to your blog).	Find a press release (not a newspaper article) from the past six months, provide the link and reasoning why it’s a beat story. Post to blog.	Find three City of Atlanta stats relevant to your beat (post on blog) The goal is not to just list numbers. You are to find credible data that tells a story about your beats local footprint. The stats should connect to a potential story angle.	Engage with a classmate’s beat work. Take a screenshot and explain how it helped further your understandin g of your beat (post to blog). Follow them on their beat on X/Twitter.
Subscribe to a free e-newsletter or substack related to your beat. Summarize one article/post and how it connects to your topic.	Find U.S. Census data related to your beat (list the data with a link and one story idea on blog).	Meet a possible source on your beat. Take a selfie with them and list their name, their title and email address and how they could be a source for your beat.	Go to a place relevant (virtual or in- person) to your beat (List what you hear and see, plus one story idea. Blog about it on your beat blog). Crime beats can scan a police blotter, or campus safety report, or public record. Summarize a possible story idea.	Identify three hashtags related to your beat (list the most engaging threads and how they connect to your beat)
Take notes on a relevant conversation you overhear that pertains to your beat.	Read a local publication story that’s related to your beat (analyze it on your blog— what did it get right, what did it miss?) Make sure you list the publication.	During homecoming post about an event or something relevant to your beat that will be interesting to others. Use hashtags and pics on your Twitter/X page.	Write about three trends or future projections related to your beat.	Talk with a professor about your beat (not in the MMA department or Communicati on Arts Division). Upload takeaways from the conversation.
Interview a student outside your major for their perspective on your beat. Blog about it.	Take notes on a conversation you overhear that is related to someone else’s beat and share it with them.	Follow three professional journalists who cover your beat. Engage with their social media (take a screenshot).	Find three local and/or campus organizations that relate to your beat. Identify the media contact and come up with a story idea.	Cross- post/publish on the blog of a classmate who shares your beat. This can include a f/u to one of their posts, or an opinion. You can link to each other’s posts.

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