Objective: In the next two days, you will read current news articles and analyze them.
As you work on these stories, try to get ideas for your own online newspaper design and save pictures, stories and ideas to your Google Docs folder.
Directions: Go to: http://www.1stheadlines.com/
Choose 6 stories, read them, and then do the following:
1. Identify what type of story it is (straight news, feature, review, editorial, etc.)
2. Copy and paste the lead into an MS Word document.
3. Describe significant data from the story in a few sentences.
4. Look at the photos on the website. How did they supply extra information to the story?
5. What were features of this website that made the story informative to the viewer?