This article talks about a girl who sent nude photos to her boyfriend through her camera phone. After the couple broke up, her boyfriend sent these photos around the school, mortifying the girl. As a result, the girl ended up committing suicide, unable to cope with the taunting. Sending photos of this nature [...]
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I am writing a profile story about a student at Central who was born with a heart condition. Her condition makes it difficult to get around the school to her classes and she regularly has to visit the school nurse. I’m not sure which angle to use with my story though. I could solely focus [...]
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Aaron and Hilary Anderson, a couple from Colorado, recently used a special procedure to examine the genes of their child Ava Anderson, who is only 13 months old. Using the procedure, the parents were able to look at the future athletic potential of Ava, and discovered that she is built to become a “power athlete [...]
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http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html I found this site useful because it can give you and gave me good cold hard facts. The site has alot of interesting facts about the american people, population, huosing, business, governement, and maps. This is a trusted site because it is put out by the governemen and is updated often. The United States [...]
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http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Students/Students.cfm?id=17 I found this web site extremey useful. For kids who are condisering studying journalism more than just what they’re doing in high school, it gives you a list of colleges that offer communications (journalism) programs and tells you whether its an accredited program. For those who aren’t quite sure what that is, it tells [...]
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Q. I know that your story should have an angle. But my question is: Can your story start with one angle and then transition to another angle that is similar to the one that you started out with? Twitter This Usuario: Password:
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This was very interesting to me. Photojournalism is a form of journalism shown through pictures in order to create a story. It is very interesting and if you like photography you would be very well interested in this. For a resource website and list of schools that offer Photojournalism programs you can click here to be taken [...]
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Yesterday, Valerie Streit from CNN wrote a story about how the recession is squeezing recycling programs. In Atlanta, Georgia people are putting out their recycling to be picked up and it is not getting picked up. Citizens are being forced to house their recycling in their garages and/or driving it themselves to the recycling [...]
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CNN reported on the tragic incident with Natasha Richardson. She fell and hit her head on a beginner’s slop. No one thought it was serious, but when Richardson returned to her room, she was complaining about head pain and was rushed to a hospital. She eventually died from the injury. This will probably raise some [...]
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This time of year, it can sometimes seem like all of the good story ideas have already been used. At least that’s the refrain I often hear from my students. I tell them that good reporters are also consumers of news, but they read with an eye for potential story ideas. This where RSS feeds [...]
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