Make It Memorable

Bob Dotson, special correspondent for the NBC Today show, has more than forty years of experience in the field of broadcast journalism. His long running “American Story” segment is one of the most honored series in network television history, winning more than 100 awards, including eight Emmys. Dotson has received more than seventy awards, including six Edward R. Murrow Awards for "Best Network News Writing", top journalism awards from DuPont-Columbia and the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, numerous National Headliner Awards, the Sprague Memorial Citation from the National Press Photographers Association, and the William Allen White Foundation’s 2015 National Citation for long-standing journalistic excellence in service to the profession and community. Drew Jordan is a motion design, graphics, and creative visuals specialist on the Visual Investigations team at the New York Times. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for coverage of Russia's bombing of hospitals in Syria, and has been a graphics editor and producer for 4 News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Before joining the New York Times in 2017, he worked as a creative lead for NBC, and prior to that ran his own studio specializing in motion design for journalistic and documentary productions.

Chapter 1: Become a Better Storyteller

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Chapter 3: Successfully Pitch the Stories You Want to Do

Chapter 4: Interviewing

Chapter 5: Look for Different Ways to Tell Your Story

Chapter 6: Shooting Your Story

Chapter 8: Writing

Chapter 9: Lighting the Path to What’s New

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Appendix

Glossary of Script Cues

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Authors