Archive for April, 2010

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Class Work

Make sure you are keeping up! Some people’s blogs have not been updated–remember the portfolio is due in three weeks! This week I want you to write a lead with a feature approach to the hard news story I have given you.

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Week Seven — ANZAC holiday reading

Yep, there’s a holiday on Monday–but that doesn’t mean the pace slackens! You’ve got some really interesting, different feature stories to reda this week. Given that you are startign to learn what feature writing is about, I want you to take notice of the writign style and approach of the articles. One is based on [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

The media conference story

Here is the real news story that I created your media conference story from…with certain facts taken out. It was reported in the Herald Sun. What do you think? Police have saved a man from a burning car that crashed after a rock was hauled through the windscreen, knocking out the driver. The two detectives from [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Week Six

You should all be busy writing up your short news story. When you have time to take a break, I would like you to consider a chapter of Barbara Ehrenreich’s book: “Nicket and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America.” I have purposely chosen this text because of the similarity of the theme with an article we [...]