The news today
http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-michigan-teen-runaways-found-safe-chicago/story?id=20191947&google_editors_picks=trueThe 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.
Good notes. You might introduce them with what you are referring to, ex. After listening to a Salt Institute radio piece about a woman dying of ALS...
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