The Oregonian printed a story called "Study links brain area with urge to smoke" on the front page of the Jan. 26, 2007 issue. I believe this is a hard news story since it is timely news and it impacts smokers and people close to smokers.
The story is written in inverted pyramid style. The first paragraph/sentence is a summary lead that tells the who,what and why of the rest of the story. The rest of the story is backup and elaboration supplying context and in-depth information to support the lead.
The Columbian had a story on January 19,2007 called "Local DUI arrests jumped 53% in '06" on the front page. It also is a hard news story. It is hard news because it impacts the drivers of Clark County. In this story the author uses narrative style to describe a policeman pulling over a drunken driver. This goes on for about seven paragraphs before the nut paragraph. I think this can be done with this story since there is a chart showing pertinent information.
The first story gets right to the point. The second one kind of meanders for a little bit before everything comes together. I enjoyed reading the second one more because it was easy for me to visualize the story.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
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