ETHICS

A doctor who prescribes an illegal medicine could lose his license, and a lawyer who mislead a client, may be guilty of violating a code of ethics. But a reporter may win a Pulitzer Prize. The power to license or regulate is the power to censor. So it's crucial as you are revising your writing to reflect on how it came to be.

LIBEL

A reporter handles a valuable and fragile possession, a person's reputation in writing the news. You always have to make sure your not going to injure someone's reputation. Here are some things to look for: "false" is the key word, be certain you can prove what you publish. Another can be, your false report is priveileged you will be guilty of libel.

GETTING IT RIGHT-PART 2

A careful writer is precise. A writer must be just as selective with her/his words. To make sure presice ask yourself these questions. Are my sentences simple and strong? You have to rely on strong nous and verbs, not a adjectives and adverbs. Or have i been concise? Use short words instead of long, the familiar to the not so familiar, the specific to the abstract.

GETTING IT RIGHT-PART 1

Practice makes perfect when your playing baseball so it is with writing. Writing takes practice. "What you have written is only presparation for what you are going to write, said former Wall Street Journal. Here are some ways to improve your first draft: read your story out loud, check to make sure your sentences are not too long.

WritingThe writing process

Writing is a process, a logical sequence of steps. The successful writer gather, product of a logical process. These are the same basic steps upon which this Web site is built: prewriting, writing and rewriting. Some steps are gathering writers must find the details that reveal meaning, you can't write writing; you must have to have facts.

Writing Getting organized

A minute spent in planning the story will prevent countless problems later on.

Some steps are to look at your notes and background material, mark the best of it, the key points and strongest quotes. You should be able to express this theme in a sentence or two.

Writing Story structure

Choose a chronological order, where you present the key events in your story as they occurred. The most popular structure for news stories is the inverted pyramid. The most important material is placed at the beginning of the story. Succeeding paragraghs explain and support the lead.

Writing The news lead—part 1

A good news story, unlike the novel or play, is based on one main idea. It gives the reader a sense of completeness, a sense that you know what you are doing.

In the steps you should deside on this focus, you also should work on you lead. By asking about the main theme for your story, you are deciding how to begin, for often the two- a statement of theme and lead- are one ant the same.

Writing The news lead—part 2

The second type of lead that is used mostly on feature stories. It's the delay or feature lead.

It sets a scene or evokes a mood with an incident, anecdote or example. Essential information is temporarily witheld. The writer teases before she pleases.

Writing The rest of the story

The strenght of the story comes from the details that back up the promise of the lead. The things you have observed, the explanations and definitions and the sense of history. There are parts that lend meaning and significance to the event or person you are writing about.

Writing The tools of the trade

News writing is concrete and specific in many ways. The task of the writer, said Joseph Conrad, "is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel, to make you see." The news writer makes meaning early with sentences that begin with subjects and verbs.

Transcript Of Barack Obama's Victory Speech

1. What historic event happened yesterday?

Barack Obama President-Elect won yesterday against McCain he is the first African American president and also the 44th president of the Untied States of America. His Victory Speech is made history. This is the first Generation to know that it's possible for anyone to become president.

We will remember this for years to come. This is a time to promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream... Barack Obama

2. How will this affect your life?

Barack Obama has changed my life and has made history his has made things possible. He has proved that it's not the color of your skin but that we are from the United States Of America... and it's possible that anyone could become president... A place where anythings possible...

3. How will this effect our country's future and the future of it's citizens?

We know says Barack Obama that this election isn't goint to change every problem us citizens face, but he will be honest with you about the challenges we face. Barack Obama has opened doors of oppurtunity.

we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. ~Barack Obama~

Nothing will ever be the same... The United States of America doesn't have to suffer any longer...