News Lead
This news lead is from an article I read in the Miami Herald website this afternoon:
Girl slashed with razor at middle school
By WANDA J. DeMARZO AND HANNAH SAMPSON
wdemarzo@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Two girls were taken to Broward General Medical Center after getting into a confrontation at school shortly before 9 a.m. Friday.
http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/58245.html
The lead is a summary lead, since it moves straight into the "who, what, when, where, why, and how's" of journalism. It especially places an empahsis on the "what" and "who," since we learn that two girls were taken into the hospital after getting into a physical confrontation. I think this summary lead proves effective since it solely focuses on what happened, rather than trying to "spice things up" in order to grab the reader's attention. It sums up exactly what happened in just a sentence, which is important for people who are on the go and want to read a story in the quickest amount of time possible. While I would have liked the lead to mention that one of the girls was injured with a razorblade, I realized that the lead didn't need to have this piece of information because it was already located in the headline. Overall, I think it is a good and effective lead for this kind of story.
posted by Natalie @ 1:16 PM
3 Comments:
Summary leads are quite effective. In this fast-paced world we live in it's hard to get emotion in a story. However, it might not even be needed at all if we have the hard facts. I liked your post, thanks.
-Nick
In a hard news story like this one, a summary lead is effective because it gives the essentials in the first sentence. We know what happened and where. I agree that it is good because it provides all the information for people who are on the go and want information right away.
Intense! Completely to the point with all the Who, what, where, when why packed in to 1 short sentence. I liked it.
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