News Story assignment

You will need to post a news story on your blog, by the end of class Friday.

We've discussed two kinds of leads already.

Here are two examples of news stories about the same topic: the government is beginning to ban texting while driving.

This is from a student newspaper.

This is from CNN, a professional news site.

Notice some of the basic parts of a news story.

You have a lede, which is the start of the story.
You have the actual news, or what happened that is important enough to share.
You have the background facts that talk about why the news is important.
You have some quotes from some of the stakeholders, or the people who consider this an important issue.

In every news story, you should aim to answer 7 questions:
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?
So What?

Click here for some more background on those seven questions.

Your assignment is to write a news story on a topic of your choice for your blog. It will be due Friday at the end of class. You need to answer all seven questions.