Thursday, February 11, 2010

two kinds of news story leads

Your basic "what happened story..." - hard news lead

Example #1
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002189982_webcaphillfire25.html

Example #2
http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=4903388


A "softer lead" where the actual news comes a little bit later...

Example #1
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050207&slug=lunar07m

Example #2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012503078.html

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