Writing leads for news stories was a new experience for me and one that was harder than expected. Because I tend to get most of my news from Twitter I was finding myself writing the leads in more of a “Headliny” fashion instead of complete sentences. However after writing a few leads it got easier to do. The stories that continued more news then other stories were harder than other leads to write. Trying to decide what was the most important elements of the story and what was the news was something I found harder then I thought it would be.

After writing all of my leads I began to realize that almost every  prominent story had all of the important information within the first 4 paragraphs. This just confirmed my suspicions that you do not need to read the entire article to know everything that is going on in the story. It also shows that almost every story is written with the inverted pyramid style.