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The News Feature Story Deconstructed, Part 2

The News Feature Story Deconstructed, Part 2. Example of news story And Baby Makes Four?.

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The News Feature Story Deconstructed, Part 2

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  1. The News Feature Story Deconstructed, Part 2

  2. Example of news storyAnd Baby Makes Four? The UK has moved closer to becoming the first country to allow the creation of a baby from three people. On Tuesday, a British health agency found that most advanced forms of IVF are unsafe. A final decision on whether to press ahead rests with ministers.

  3. Feature story follow ups:Ethical and legal concerns about 3-way DNAPast genetic breakthroughs—with updatesA how-to guide: where can you get this done, what do you need to know

  4. The parts of a feature or second-day story • Headline • Lede • Nut graph • Body, which includes elaboration, reaction quotes that support the sides of the story--if there are sides. • Ending, conclusion, kicker

  5. Story lede, sometimes called soft or anecdotal lede Story ledes can be one paragraph or a few Unlike the “just the facts” news lede, the soft lede is often descriptive and teases the reader Doesn’t have the “ws” Often focuses on a person that is an example of the larger point of the story Most magazine articles use story ledes

  6. Nut graph, sometimes called billboard • Nut graph is a paragraph (or two) that explains what the story is about. • It contains the facts • Most of the rest of the story supports and amplifies what you’ve written in the nut graph • If you write a strong, clear nut graph, your story will be easier to organize.

  7. Rick Alexander, a master carpenter in Tampa, Florida, has given up searching for a job after months of effort. The disappointment, he said, has become unbearable.“When you were in high school and kept asking the head cheerleader out for a date and she kept saying ‘no,’ at some point you stopped asking her,” he said. “It becomes a ‘why bother’ scenario.” Story or soft lede

  8. Out of Work, Too Down to Search [story lede] Rick Alexander, a master carpenter in Tampa, Florida, has given up searching for a job after months of effort. The disappointment, he said, has become unbearable.“When you were in high school and kept asking the head cheerleader out for a date and she kept saying ‘no,’ at some point you stopped asking her,” he said. “It becomes a ‘why bother’ scenario.”[transition] Alexander is one of a growing number of hidden casualties of the Great Recession. [nut graph] Every month millions of Americans are left out of the unemployment rate. The official jobless rate was reported on Friday to have risen to 9.7 percent in February. But to be included in that measure, which is calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a worker must have actively looked for a job at some point in the preceding four weeks. For an increasing number of people in this country who would prefer to be working, that is not the case. Millions of Americans Left Off Jobless Rolls

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