The article from the Washington Post that I chose was, Powerful storm flips cars, decimates homes along destructive path through Southeast; 2 dead

The lead in this article went two words over 30. So it wasn’t a good opening because they should have been more concise. But when looking closer at the opening to find the news elements present I found that:

Who? Same as what

What? A massive storm

When? January 30th

Where? Georgia

Why? Dangerous winds and tornadoes

How? Same as the why

The news values in this story that I found were timeliness, impact, magnitude.

The timeliness in this story was that it just happened today. So they were very effective, when giving the most up to date news.

It’s impact is easy to see. many houses were destroyed, along with two deaths and many injured. It also tossed around cars and ripped up part of a manufacturing plant.

The magnitude was big in this story due to it happened so close to a metro area, it was about 60miles northwest of Atlanta. Many people were affected by this story, because this storm covered a lot of area, ripping up trees and lifting trucks off the ground.

The other elements I feel did not pertain to this story. There was no big name people who died in it. It wasn’t a conflict because it had to do with a natural disaster. There was no oddity in this story, due to the fact that tornadoes happen a lot.