Final stories

NewsDawgs: By now, if you've been hitting deadline, you're planning (or in the midle of...!) your final story before the Final Exam. This week's story, as always, is due by midnight Friday--emailed to me and posted to NewsHounds.

This last story, as you recall, is worth 60 pts., or three times the first outside story you wrote. This story should be . . .

YOUR BEST!
A complex topic
Something that people are passionate about (and you can get quotes that show that)
Something compelling that touches readers' hearts, minds, lives....
Something that permits you to describe the scene/people/event/activity....

And, of course, the story should be impeccably written and edited, spell-checked, grammatical, AP-style, etc.

Some NewsHounds are still, er (how shall I put it?), "developing" their final story ideas.

On 4/21/08 1:24 PM, "One Student" wrote:

This week i am stumped i have no idea what to write a story on. If you have any ideas please let me know. I have been trying to think of something all weekend but nothing.

Let’s see.

Ideas:
• Tomorrow is Earth Day. What does that mean around here? What’s the history? If you asked Al Gore, would he say the Earth is doomed? What do USU scientists have to say about global warming or ecological/environmental issues?

• Friday is the gay-lesbian Day of Silence in support of GBLTA. Gay at USU must be a difficult thing.

• Or take a science thing....How about radon? What is it and why is it a critical thing in homes?

• Or a person: a professor who invested something? An expert at USU about tsunamis or Poland or Islam?

• Check calendars for this week and next—what anniversaries are coming up? (Google today in history)

• Yesterday was the Boston Marathon, arguably the world’s biggest running event. How about someone from Logan who ran? Or is training for a marathon? Is there a way to do a story that's still news?

Other ideas, anyone?