Dr. Jocelyn Steinke
Professor
School of Communication
Program in Gender and Women's Studies
Western Michigan University
[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.


