Hi, I'm Sue Clerc, your librarian for Journalism! Please feel free to email me! We can also meet in person to go over an assignment in more depth.
A few of the things I can help you with:
I'm also the librarian for Media Studies & Communication, and there's a lot of overlap among the three disciplines, so you might want to have a look at the other guides.
This guide was originally created by Carol Skalko in Spring 2011 and has been updated many times since by Sue Clerc.
From Scholastic: How to write a newspaper article
Article outline
I. Lead sentence
Grab and hook your reader right away.
II. Introduction
Which facts and figures will ground your story? You have to tell your readers where and when this story is happening.
III. Opening quotation
What will give the reader a sense of the people involved and what they are thinking?
IV. Main body
What is at the heart of your story?
V. Closing quotation
Find something that sums the article up in a few words.
VI. Conclusion (optional—the closing quote may do the job)
