Written News Story

"Recently at ONW, students received laptops from the District. The laptops are Dell, but mostly Microsoft-based. These laptops are planned to last for a couple years so students need to take good care of them. The school hopes the students will be more successful with these laptops."

The way I wrote my news story was based on what I already knew from getting the laptops. The teachers and tech administrates gave students advice and "how-to"s on taking care of laptops and making sure students are safe and secure.

What I like about writing a news story is being able to have some freedom with how to present information. There are many types of leads News Anchors use to get the audience's attention. For example, on lead an be what a person said in an interview and build the story based on that beginning. Another lead is a Staccato lead. This lead is usually three short sentences to create action and interest. An example of this is if the story was about baseball; "The ball is pitched, the clink of the bat, coaches yelling "Run"".

I still need to work on making the story "bigger". I need to work on stretching the story out a little more to fill up more of the video portion of the project.

I would still try to keep the story short and concise, making sure I get the point across. Stories should be short and concise with room for what the interviewee said, however, it can't be too short.

I would still interview my principal at my school, but try to get the interview done earlier. My team had a difficukt time trying to set yup a time to interview the principal.

I will try to be concise and to the point on my next project when it comes to writing one, but making it a bit longer too than what I have.

In he end, writing news stories isn't my cup of tea, but has helped me get to the point in a lot of my work.