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hard news story vs. feature story
hard news
• direct• summary • inverted pyramid• facts
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hard news story vs. feature story
feature
• narrative• detail• observation• facts• summary
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hard news lead
rhythm5 Ws
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summarize
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rhythm
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rhythm
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hard lead
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hard lead
What are the rules?
• 5 Ws• Identification (to ID or not)• Summarize
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soft lead
• one of the 5 w’s• detail
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soft lead – New York Times
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soft leadsobservation
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soft leadsSetting a scene
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soft leadsdetail
a witty lead emerges from the story itself.
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soft leads
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soft leads
ignore the rules
… but make sure it works
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A different kind of storyThe hard lead (the w’s)
A 32-year-old Miami woman shot and killed her husband yesterday in a Dade County suburb after an argument, police said.
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soft lead
The man she loved slapped her face. Furious, she says she told him never, ever to do that again. “What are you going to do, kill me?” he asked, and handed her a gun. “Here, kill me,” he challenged. She did
• meaningful detail
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Blackboard Documents
Shooting at Church’s
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soft leads
Church’s chicken
Jmikelyons.com > Schedule > Church’s chicken
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soft leads
soft lead (the top narrow part)
nut graf (recap – the wide part)
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A different kind of storyEdna Buchanan on leads:
(My) idea of a successful lead is one that could cause a reader who is breakfasting with his wife to "spit out his coffee, clutch his chest, and say, 'My god, Martha. Did you read this?"
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soft leadsGary Robinson died hungry.He had a taste for Church's fried
chicken. He wanted the three-piece box for $2.19, plus tax.
Instead he got three bullets.