ENGL 295 - Sarah Proctor

      There are many different types of leads that a journalist can use for their story. They can use a hard lead which is very direct and summarizes the point of the story, or they can use a soft lead which provides a little bit more of a description of what the story will be about and not nearly as direct. Journalists do not have forever to write a story now because of the rise of social media. They need to be able to think quickly and get their story out. Chapter 8 goes into detail about the best ways to write a story which starts from the preparation of the story to the ending. It discusses key ways to construct the story by keeping readers engaged and is informative on how to organize the information in a story.      Both of these chapters provide helpful tips on how to keep the readers engaged with the stories through leads and through the content of the story. It is essential to have an intriguing lead, but it is also just as important to organize yo...

      Each social media platform has its own set of rules and guidelines that they must follow when reporting, advertising, or just posting. There are many different ways to fact-check your sources. Chapter four goes into great detail about the different types of sources and how reliable each one is. It emphasizes the importance of having great credibility in your news articles, and how as a reader, it is important to find the sources that properly gathered their information and are credible. Chapter five goes into detail about the proper way of preparing and conducting an interview.      We have been discussing the most common ways people now receive their news. Social media is one of the top ways people stay informed about what is going on in the world. Although it is a lot easier to find all of the sources listed in chapter four by using social media, it can be much harder to verify the information from these sources. Before conducting an interview, you ...

    The first chapter focuses on how covering and viewing news has drastically changed due to the use of technology. How media is covered, the devices people choose to use to view the news, and how people pay for the news is constantly changing. News is something that is produced by everyone and not just the journalist. The second chapter focuses on the basic foundation of how a news story is properly written to attract readers attention. A news story normally gives the results first to lure the reader in, and it contains visuals and intriguing leads to persuade the viewer to finish reading the whole article.      The way news is produced and distributed is based on the technology and media platform that it is being released on. If something is going out in print media, then it will use different techniques to catch the reader's eye compared to something going out online. It is interesting to understand how different news writing and normal writing is....

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