The news today

http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-michigan-teen-runaways-found-safe-chicago/story?id=20191947&google_editors_picks=true

The story starts off like most news stories, with a quote from the "authorities". It then goes on to explain the details of their safe return, starting with their discovery of them in the back of an SUV and slowly working it's way back to them leaving their hometown in Michigan. Throughout the story, quotes from the local police chief who found them are paraphrased and provide many of the specific details of finding them and what the star crossed lovers said.

KEY ELEMENTS
Enlighten, Entertain, educate

Quick, to the point, and relateable. Causes a certain feeling in the reader, connecting this reader to the writer and to the story. Big opening, usually a picture and one sentence that hooks you. Lots of factual quotes that a reader will be surprised about, causing him to read into it even farther.

Day 1-Why Journalism?

Journalism is a word with many meanings, a proffesion, a hobby, a hated papparazzi photographer, or just a class to get another english credit. I'm here to learn. I'm here to learn about asking questions and translating answers, about taking pictures and using technology. School, some may say, is all for learning. Some people are lying. School is about getting through, learning how to live socially in our world with billions of other people. It's about manners, social expectations, relationships, and graduating. I have put my time in for 13 years, learning what i needed only to get to the next year. But now, Mrs Hall, i am ready to learn. At night, now, I go to bed thinking about what I'm going to do with my life, and after closing my eyes and going to sleep I dream of waiting in the waves with proffesionals, a paycheck from surfer magazine, and a journalist necklace that lets me travel the world the way I want to and getting paid for writing about it. Please, teach me the ways of a journalist.