Week Two

Jan. 26: Return of Story #1 and discussion of common mistakes, style rules. (rewrite of Story #1 due Feb. 2)
Class discussion on most visited news websites, recent Boston.com poll on whether people would pay to read news websites, discussion of new Boston news website planned, and overview of Anatomy of a News Story. Suggested reading: Rich, Ch. 3


Jan. 28: Continued discussion of Anatomy of a News Story and finding story ideas. In-class writing assignment: Story #2 Assigned, related to recent news. Suggested reading: Rich, Ch. 5

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