What is a news story?
        Attempts to answer all the basic questions 
          about any particular event in the first two or 
          three paragraphs
           Who? What? When? Where? and Why? and 
            occasionally How? ("5 W's"). 
        Lead and body
        Ends when the writer runs out of material
        Can be written like a news article or produced 
          in a newscast
      Hard News
       Hard News includes two concepts:
       Seriousness:  politics, economics, crime, 
        war, disasters, discoveries, law, science, 
        technology, medicine, education, breaking 
        news on a local, state, national or world 
        level
       Current- Stories that cover current events 
        that affects the audience and is important 
        to all watching
     Hard News Examples-
     Gas prices go up again
     Outbreak of a virus
     Crime spree in a two-mile radius
     School Bus driver plows through a 
      Starbucks
     Cure to a deadly disease found
     Discovery of alien life in space
     4-mile car pileup on I-75 caused by a truck 
      carrying hungry lions
      Soft News “Feature News”
     Soft news is sometimes referred to as “infotainment”.  
     They are entertaining most times.
     These stories appeal to the emotional side and doesn’t 
     directly affect the audience.  Some viewers may care and 
     others won’t. 
     Might include an interesting, odd or heartwarming story 
     that appeals to the curiosity of the viewer.