July 19, 2017
DIRECTIONS: Complete your first web story on the Google Doc and click the turn in button at the top of this form. Make sure it is shared into the 2 March Web stories so editors can comment on the story as well.
STORY IDEAS: Writing Award Winners, Student Council News, Redistricting Update, New Food Rules Update,
How to get a good story? Listen to what students are talking about or gossipping (not talking about who broke up with who :). Localize a national issue like racial profiling or something that is in the news that affects the lives of high school students at City High. News worthy stories are something that students don’t know or important information about what is going to changing or affecting their lives in the future.
Describe a scene or a person. Do not start out with a name or a date or something boring. Who, what, how, where when and why are always good questions to answer.
— Mr. Rogers
How to write a good lead? Describe a scene or a person. Do not start out with a name or a date or something boring. Who, what, how, where when and why are always good questions to answer. Never use I, You, we or us and also never put your opinion in a news or sports or feature story.
HEADLINE and ANGLE
Write your headline below. It should inform the readers and have nouns and verbs. The reader shouldn’t be wondering what the story is about after reading the headline. The angle should be something more interesting than just the team won or lost. This still needs to be done for photo and video stories.
Your donation will support the student journalists of Iowa City High School. For 2023, we are trying to update our video and photo studio, purchase new cameras and attend journalism conferences.
