Due Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 (Worth 6 points if fully completed, 2 points for half)
Using correct grammar, style and punctuation, answer the following:
1. Next time you have a conversation over breakfast, lunch or dinner either jot down or make mental notes of the topics discussed. (If you don't see or talk to anyone during meals, just use any conversation.)
a. List the topics.
b. Answer this: How could what you discussed be expanded or turned into a story idea for campus or Champaign-Urbana? (You might have to think "outside the box.") Who would you talk to?
c. And this: Describe what your lede could be. (Avoid using a summary lede.)
d. Finally this: What would be your nutgraf?
2. Read a national news story or watch or listen to a national television or radio newscast.
a. Briefly describe the story and post the link.
b. Again, how could this story be localized? Who would you talk to?
c. Describe a possible lede that's not the same type of lede you described above or a summary lede.
d. What would be your nutgraf?
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