Minutes of Meeting 03-23-08
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Action items:
Birgit:
Assign people to contact to newsgroup members; particularly Matt and Buz as they volunteered
Investigate Cambridge Health Alliance stories
Book studio for test anchor shoot
Matt:
Investigate Cambridge Health Alliance stories
Call water contacts
Contact Jim re: Harvard story
Buz:
Call water contacts
Contact Spring and Elizabeth to complete story
Nicole:
See if contacts on possible tax story know anything about health care access in Cambridge
Present: Buz, Ann, Nicole, Matt, Birgit
Minutes approved
Agenda kept as is; Matt asked who paid for the show entry, Buz did, this time :)
Story Progress
Buz made a new edition of the show with (almost) all corrections
Nicole is working on a new story featuring the work of the Cambridge Center for Low Income Families (hope I got that right) in relation to taxes
Nicole is still working on news class story, editing tomorrow (Boston Improv)
Buz will contact Spring/Elizabeth in order to complete Salsa story (news class)
We forgot to mention B Live story (news class)
Harvard destruction story currently stalled, Matt to contact Jim. Shouldn't take much more to complete interviews/footage. Should contact Harvard to respond.
Lester Brown, working on setting up Cambridge city person interview
New Stories
There will be a special meeting of the City Council on the 25th to review progress on the Cambridge Energy Alliance. Given that we reported on its creation, it would be nice to do a follow-up
Apparently they had an unexpected $18m deficit. Matt might get time to look into the story.
We thought today it would be interesting to examine how accessible the CHA is, and how it interacts with the state's new healthcare system. Are there (for example) any walk in facilities? Nicole may get a chance to examine how lower income citizens can get access. Matt will try to look into the other issues.
It seems people in Cambridge are not very well protected against landlords suddenly deciding that they don't want to renew contracts. In other places, people seem to be better protected in this situation. In the general context of all the other housing problems people are having, and the economic/mortgage crisis, this might be a good issue to look into, with opportunities to interview persons affected and lawyers working to help them, along with (perhaps) city or state representatives.
Having an anchor instead of on-street intros
We decided to give this a go. Nicole volunteered to be the anchor. We will do a test shoot, and for the real thing will need a script. We'd like to try blue-screen and use the new CCTV desk. Having an anchor will make it possible to give better intros to stories and also links between them. Possibility of two presenters proposed. Anyone who is interested in anchoring should let the rest of the group know (none of the rest of today's attendees were!). Some concern over whether an anchor would have editorial 'control'. We would like to assemble a script together based on the show's stories, so it should be a joint editorial effort.
Water Story
We reminded ourselves that we are working on the cambridge water supply (and related quality issues) story for now. Karen was to investigate treatment works tour, but we haven't heard back. Birgit to contact. We should contact academics who know about the issues and ask questions on what is tested for and what isn't. Did Greenpeace have a water campaign? Should get interview with Massachusetts Clean Water Action. Birgit will assign people to contact to Matt and Buz.
Adjourned.
