Story Leads—Week 9 (10/20)

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POST STORY IDEAS HERE

'Dawgs:

Every week I'll launch a Story Leads post where I will post ideas. You can swipe them, comment on them or volunteer your own story ideas to each other. If you're offering ideas, please post them here.

1. Organizations/calendars. Look ahead at coming events at organization websites (Chamber of Commerce, Cache Valley Peace Works, Zombies for Change, whatever). I just forwarded to you all via email an announcement from the Caine School of the Arts at USU about stuff they have planned this week--possible stuff.

2. Bugs? I don't know if this really is a story, but KUSU right now is running a conversation about debugging your house at this time of year before winter. (?)

3. Experts. There is some expert on any topic you can imagine on this campus. Typhoons. Jewelry. Ancient Greece. Economic collapse. Meteorology. If you start with a huge topic that interests you—or some event anywhere in the world—find a local expert to interview.

4. Hunting Season—the deer-murdering season started Saturday.

5. Anniversaries/Seasonal stuff—Use Google to find peculiar upcoming events as a news hook for a story (as in my National Punctuation Day example last week).

More to come.....