This is our weekly resource of ideas for broadcast journalism stories. (Feel free to use them if you’re in any other form of media as well, of course.) As always, if you cover a story from the list, feel free to send me a link and I’ll post it here, along with a scathing critique of it (kidding).
1. Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week. This annual week has already started, it runs from June 21-27. Many communities have a local school for the deaf and blind, and these are always heartwarming stories of struggle & triumph. Sure to be a tear-jerker for your viewers.
2. Box Office Revenues. Year-to-date box office revenues are up 9.3% as of this week. Are more people flocking to the theaters to take their minds off the financial meltdown? And how much are the numbers skewed by rising ticket prices?
3. Death of the iPhone - June 29, 2009. Roger McNamee made his famous prediction that the iPhone would be outdated and therefore the product would be dead on its 2-year anniversary. Which is next Monday. 3G, anyone?
4. Another Bold Prediction! As long as we’re on the subject of wildly accurate prophecies from sinful, self-deifying human beings, a financial expert predicted that the housing market free-fall would end on June 30, 2009. Bet he wishes the wayback machine didn’t exist now.
5. Microsoft Money Dies on June 30, 2009. Unlike the iPhone, this is a death that will actually occur on the date predicted. Looks like banking institutions are running to the web, like most other industries. Could tie the story in to online features that banks are now offering for customers.
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