Business story

For your business story, this week you will need to meet in your groups to discuss your story ideas. From that meeting, you will come up with a budget - a collection of story skedlines - of how you will be covering this issue. You should pick a member of your group to be a team leader who will collect the budget. (You'll take turns with each package.) The team leader needs to turn in the budget of proposed stories to me.

Remember, you are each to produce your own written word and video story - individually. You will collaborate as a team to come up with a focus for your coverage, but the stories you get out of the budget meeting will be for you to work on separately. This is how newsrooms work.

Think of a variety of possible elements. Main bar, side bar, informational graphics, photos, videos, Q&A, maps, timelines, etc. You don't have to use all of them, but look for opportunities to use them.

Also, make sure you have a name for your team, so you can create your online presence.

And yes, you can come talk to me about your stories before next week's deadline, which by the way, is Wednesday.