Assignment 6
Following are fact sets for 4 news stories. Your assignment is to read the fact sets and write leads for the four stories.
You do not need to write the actual story. REMEMBER: A lead is always only one sentence!! If you find you lead has two sentences
go back and rewrite it.
When you are finished this assignment you should have just 4 sentences in total.
LEAD 1: A 15,000 volts almost take the life of a Acme Engineers employed.
Fact Set 1: Ralph Lincoln, 45, of Mason City, Iowa, a pipe fitter employed by Acme Engineers, a company headquartered in Marshalltown, Iowa; Harry Rosen, project manager for Acme Engineers, said Lincoln suffered third-degree burns at 3 p.m. today and was listed in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Des Moines Regents Hospital; Lincoln was installing new pipes on the roof of the Des Moines Municipal Power Plant, 223 Power Drive, when he touched a power line carrying 15,000 volts with a piece of angle iron.
LEAD 2 : Great crash in Barton County , left one injury and no responsible.
Fact Set 2: Myrna Jones, 27, of 402 N.W. 50th Lane, Lamar, Mo., and Ronald Stevenson, 19, Rural Route 2, Liberal, Mo.; Jones was driving a 1990 blue Dodge car west on County Road C in Barton County, near the town of Irwin, Mo., while Stevenson was driving east in a 1982 Chevy pickup; Barton County Sheriff Bill Griffith said Stevenson apparently crossed the center line and struck the Jones vehicle; Jones is in serious condition at Barton County Memorial Hospital; Stevenson was treated and released; no charges were filed
LEAD 3 : New clues about a possible murder of 45 year old woman.
Fact Set 3: A 45-year-old Denver, Colo. woman, Sheila Richards, was found dead in her apartment. Richards suffered a gunshot wound and police say they suspect foul play; Richards was found late this afternoon by a neighbor; coroners and police have not yet released the official cause of death, but police note Richards is the third woman to be found dead in her apartment building in the last three days.
LEAD 4 :The fight for a credential to space.
Fact Set 4: NASA spokesman Joel Wells says Kennedy Space Center officials have been inundated with more than 4,000 requests for press credentials to cover the launch of the shuttle Discovery when it carries space legend 77-year-old former U.S. Sen. John Glenn into orbit 36 years after his last space flight; Glenn will be the first senior citizen in space; a record-breaking 3,000 journalists have been granted credentials for the historic launch; "Today" show host Matt Lauer secured press credentials for his wife, Annette Roque, a model who is listed on the NBC roster as a makeup artist; an NBC network spokesperson says Roque was on the roster so she could watch the launch; she did not work for the network and was not paid by NBC; the NBC network spokesperson acknowledged that some NBC journalists are complaining that Roque's inclusion on the roster meant the network sent one less legitimate journalist to cover the launch.
jueves, 4 de febrero de 2010
assignment 4
Assignment 4
Write a descriptive paragraph about a topic of your choice. In you paragraph you must have a leat one sentence containing a semicolon, one containing an em dash and one containing a colon.
Photography is my topic I just love it, capture the happy moments the enjoy of the people doing all the things that like and the dark side of the photography is to take all the reality trying not only to capture your point of view but also to take the most amazing view for the other persons can be your eyes and point of view but the judges of your work had been always the society that are gone to judge it ,"I like it but, what it really represent your picture , are you sure about those colors, I don't like the composition ",can be your greatest dream or your horrible nightmare.
Write a descriptive paragraph about a topic of your choice. In you paragraph you must have a leat one sentence containing a semicolon, one containing an em dash and one containing a colon.
Photography is my topic I just love it, capture the happy moments the enjoy of the people doing all the things that like and the dark side of the photography is to take all the reality trying not only to capture your point of view but also to take the most amazing view for the other persons can be your eyes and point of view but the judges of your work had been always the society that are gone to judge it ,"I like it but, what it really represent your picture , are you sure about those colors, I don't like the composition ",can be your greatest dream or your horrible nightmare.
assignment 3
Assignmnet 3
Describe the role of an editor in a newspaper. Use the example of Ben Bradlee in the film All the President's Men explaining specifically how his actions affected the Watergate story.
The editor is one of the icons in a newspaper because he can decide what is good for the interest of the newspaper, the editor can always look careless but he only want is to have all the most important news for the knowledge of the readers , for example a text about a small crime in other country or something in the paper town always the town because is in good of the readers , the target of the newspaper that is the why. Other point of the editor is that he can always give advice to the writers not always in a good terms because he need to have a position of power and if the others see that can manipulate the editor can make all they want and lower the position of the editor is that the main reason about the angry stereotype of angry editor even in the T.V the stereotype of the angry editor that only have a few moments smiling when the other time continue with a face of hate to the society.
Describe the role of an editor in a newspaper. Use the example of Ben Bradlee in the film All the President's Men explaining specifically how his actions affected the Watergate story.
The editor is one of the icons in a newspaper because he can decide what is good for the interest of the newspaper, the editor can always look careless but he only want is to have all the most important news for the knowledge of the readers , for example a text about a small crime in other country or something in the paper town always the town because is in good of the readers , the target of the newspaper that is the why. Other point of the editor is that he can always give advice to the writers not always in a good terms because he need to have a position of power and if the others see that can manipulate the editor can make all they want and lower the position of the editor is that the main reason about the angry stereotype of angry editor even in the T.V the stereotype of the angry editor that only have a few moments smiling when the other time continue with a face of hate to the society.
assignmet 1
Assignment 1: Journalism and Writing Quotes
Choose one of the following quotes and write a brief paragraph explaining it and giving your opinion about it:
"Were it left to me to decide whether to have government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to
prefer the latter."
-- Thomas Jefferson
The power of a newspaper is priceless they can give power or take it from a government that is the why a government can survive without newspaper because nobody would critic they way of doing the things and the population would be in the dark without news, but is forgiven to have government and not a newspaper that should make all the government compared to god and nothing could ever change and the persons were going to be slaves of the system, but the newspaper is gone to have more power that any government is the last barrier against ignorance the fight would never end because the two have power and are in a competition that the price is the power over the society.
In my opinion that quote is true everyone can always choose , but their decision only can be make with information that is the only ways of the people to make things and think out of the box.
Choose one of the following quotes and write a brief paragraph explaining it and giving your opinion about it:
"Were it left to me to decide whether to have government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to
prefer the latter."
-- Thomas Jefferson
The power of a newspaper is priceless they can give power or take it from a government that is the why a government can survive without newspaper because nobody would critic they way of doing the things and the population would be in the dark without news, but is forgiven to have government and not a newspaper that should make all the government compared to god and nothing could ever change and the persons were going to be slaves of the system, but the newspaper is gone to have more power that any government is the last barrier against ignorance the fight would never end because the two have power and are in a competition that the price is the power over the society.
In my opinion that quote is true everyone can always choose , but their decision only can be make with information that is the only ways of the people to make things and think out of the box.
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