[JRN 1000]
Foundations of Journalism

 

In-Class Assignment #3

 

Type up your responses to the following.


1. Select a newspaper online.

Find one example of each the following kinds of leads:

- Summary lead (hard news)

- Delayed Identification
- Feature/Soft/Creative lead

 

For each, mark down what kind of lead, and copy the lead, headline, byline, name of newspaper and date of publication and paste into a Word document..

 

Looking for a newspaper story online? Check out this site:
http://newslink.org/news.html

 

2. . More practice. Write leads for Ex. 8-1, #1,2,4, 6,10; 8-2, #2,3; 8-7, #6b and 6e.

 

Save your work! You will be rewriting these.

 

Print and turn in your assignment when finished.

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Dr. Jocelyn Steinke
School of Communication
Program in Gender and Women’s Studies
Western Michigan University
E-mail: jocelyn.steinke@wmich.edu

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