Today I had a four hour stint at university today, usually you'd think four hours, that's fine, but it was from 10am - 2pm, a two hour lecture followed by a two hour seminar session. Today in our class we worked on writing pieces for a newspaper, considering none of us had done that before it was a little challenging. We were given four different stories and had to decide an order to put them in in relevance, using the 'different values of news.' (relevance, immediacy, continuity, negativity, drama and personalities) Drama/unexpectedness always wins, especially when a death occurs within the piece, with this in mind I began ordering all the extracts we were given and wrote two in the style 'new pieces' that needed to be around 200 words each. This is what I cam up with:
Story A:
The manageress of the Oxfam charity shop in Cross Street, Mrs. Joanna Reid, was shocked to discover an unusual item amongst the donations. Situated in a refuse bag, was a funeral urn.
It is a mystery as to who left the black bag and an appeal has been put out for the owner to come forward.
Story D:
An 87-year-old widower was left fighting for her life today due to a serious accident causing horrific injures. Mrs. Susan Pope was found critically ill, at 9:55am today in her Nottingham home, after she tripped and fell through the door to her greenhouse. Leaving her suffering from a deep gash to the throat.
It was kind of being thrown in at the deep end, as news isn't my strong-point, but I suppose if I am to become a features writer I will have to learn to love the news, as features for magazines come from the backbone of news pieces.
Please can you keep sending in your street-style pictures, as well as pictures of what you are wearing, to be featured on this blog and the other blog I write for!
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