Pitching Stories: Have We Lost the Meat and the Art?

Teaching pitching is not easy because students need to understand the meat of the story plus think of a creative and artsy way to produce the final product. This roundtable panel session could also be a decent workshop inviting BEA members to bring their best student story pitches and then show the results. The goal of this session would be to show the initial pitch, then show the best stories aired, published, and executed by our students. This interactive session will include pitches and successful stories that could be used as examples to collect and take back to share newsworthy, creative, objective, memorable, interesting, and well-sourced pitches. Moderator: Chandra Clark, University of Alabama Panelists: Harrison Hove, University of Florida Carey L. Higgins-Dobney, University of Kentucky Brittney Nix-Crawford, University of North Carolina Charlotte