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Temporary Visitors Drivers License (TVDL)

The Status of Illinois Senate Bill 957

Presenter: Ted Hedrick

MJMC 456 Senior Inquiry
Monday, May 18, 2015

Roadmap

Illinois TVDL (Temporary Visitors Drivers License)

Story Idea and Platform Selection:

What it is

Text, audio, graphics

Personal Reflection

Course contributions

Liberal Arts influence

Challenges

What I learned

What is a TVDL?

The law

Purpose

Illinois own action for immigration reform

Create more opportunities for success
Safer roads
More insured drivers

History

Undocumented can have license for 3 years

Not for identification

Governor Quinn 2013

Challenges

Getting appointments
Fear of deportation

Story Idea

Value of topic

Major benefit to undocumented families

Part of larger issue immigration reform

Local relevance

No Congressional action

Congress has not passed immigration reform legislation

States need to act on their own reforms

Reflection on story idea

Spanish

Personal connection

Media Selection multimedia made story more

compelling!

Text story

Complex topic needed text

Best to describe TVDL program in Illinois

Audio interviews

Capture interviews authenticity

With actual voices reality & punch

Audio Clip: Lisa Grau, Illinois Program Director for TVDL

Graphic Map

Map graphic really extended story to national scale

Second Chance: Highlighting the states without TVDLs

Challenge: Graphic features were unavailable

Overall Reflection

Topic

Chose to report more on the implementation perspective

Became more national

Research

News stories

Journal articles

Bill 957

Interview Process

Challenge in itself

Included opposition

MJMC Course Contribution

How to tell a news story

Writing for a newspaper vs. a paper for class

How to add multimedia audio & pictures

Drilled on grammar and fact errors

Tools & techniques to go beyond traditional media

Web skills

Augustana Observer

Experience with tools WordPress

Social media Facebook

Liberal Arts Degree Influence

Understand bigger picture

Look at both sides of an argument

TVDLs impact on undocumented, other drivers & society

Study abroad Ecuador 2013

Developed open mindset to other culture

Exposed to differing views of what the U.S. meant to those in Ecuador

Through eyes of the undocumented

Underdog

Disadvantage

Challenges Overall and w/ Project

Throughout MJMC courses

Underestimated how long officials would take to get back

How to write a news story vs. paper

Reaching contacts required patience

Finding a scope

Significance across the country and can be localized

A few different angles

Being able to use more than 1 multimedia platform

Wasnt able to reach out enough to expand into other platforms

Unavailability of families comfort level

What I Learned

Project management

How to stay on schedule during a 20 week project

Cold calling

Contacting sources

Scheduling

How this will help me get a job & keep one

Communication

Multimedia production skills

End

Questions?