Weekly Focus #2: Your Roving Reporter

Audience:  Readers of the online Jeffersonian;  parents of JMS students and those students.

Thursday, September 17: Due to be edited, revised, and submitted

Word Count: 700 - 750

Find a “news story” around campus, including an interview with at least one person here they do not know or know well. In addition to at least one quote, the grade on this Focus will include your ability to mimic newspaper style in your paper. Also, be sure to find "both sides of the story”.  In particular, remember that a good newspaper story answers the questions of "who, what, why, when, where" in the very first sentence or short paragraph.

An example of the "who, what, why, when, where" can be found below:

The Obama administration soon plans to issue new guidelines aimed at giving the hundreds of prisoners at an American detention center in Afghanistan significantly more ability to challenge their custody, Pentagon officials and detainee advocates say.

- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/world/asia/13detain.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

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