March 15, 2014 by News Writing Analyze the pros: Reading news from a news writer’s perspective A lesson in analyzing current news to help students understand how to put facts in a logical order and how basic news is structured Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing The basic news lead: The 5W’s and H A multi-part lesson introducing students to the basic information required for news with a four-step process for writing basic news leads Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing News values: What makes it news? A lesson on the values of news using the “Rule of Eight” and a few other news considerations Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing News defined: What is news? A basic lesson to teach students to recognize that news must be informative, interesting and factual, or it is not news Read more