Lead Review
This lead is from the Miami Herald website. The title of the article is Pedestrian killed by Lauderdale police car.
Lead: A Fort Lauderdale police car, rushing to the scene of a reported shooting, struck and killed a pedestrian on Sistrunk Boulevard Thursday night.
This is your basic summary news lead. It is very quick and to the point. It instantly tells the readers what happened, when it happened and where it happened. I think that for a tragic story like this one, this is the best lead to use. It gets to the point of the story without leading on too much as to what happened. This lead really gets the readers attention, partly because of the tragedy that occurred, and makes them go on to read more of the story.
I like that it was very short and to the point. It left out all the main details, including the victim, the police officer, the fact that it was an undercover car and so much more. This makes the reader want to find out what happened and they must read the rest of the story.
There is not much to dislike about this lead, except for the tragic accident that occurred. This was a very effective lead for this type of story.
Lead: A Fort Lauderdale police car, rushing to the scene of a reported shooting, struck and killed a pedestrian on Sistrunk Boulevard Thursday night.
This is your basic summary news lead. It is very quick and to the point. It instantly tells the readers what happened, when it happened and where it happened. I think that for a tragic story like this one, this is the best lead to use. It gets to the point of the story without leading on too much as to what happened. This lead really gets the readers attention, partly because of the tragedy that occurred, and makes them go on to read more of the story.
I like that it was very short and to the point. It left out all the main details, including the victim, the police officer, the fact that it was an undercover car and so much more. This makes the reader want to find out what happened and they must read the rest of the story.
There is not much to dislike about this lead, except for the tragic accident that occurred. This was a very effective lead for this type of story.
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posted by Calcano at
8:07 PM
4 Comments:
I agree that a summary news lead as the best way to go for this particular type of story. Get the most important imformation out there immediately! Im sure the writer was able to convey the emotion of the tragic event later on in the newstory but that does not need to happen in the first sentence. I agree!
Because this is a hard news story, a summary lead is usually the best way to go. The lead leaves out many of the specific details of the story, providing the most important facts: what happened, where it happened and when.
You are not lying when you say the journalist got right to the point. I think summary news leads are probably the best way to go when talking about a serious news piece but as long as the writer is good, any news lead could work.
Correct. It is a summary lead, but the HOW of the story is included in that brief lead: "rushing to the scene of a reported shooting"
That adds a more dramatic (but not sensational) element to the lead.
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