Preliminary Task - Writing Leads

 


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Hello everyone, welcome back! Today while we wait for our interview candidate to become available we're going to be working on our writing skills, specifically our lead writing skills. Writing leads is an incredibly important part of this magazine, as I'll have to write a lead story that will go with my double page spread. Since I'm going to be writing said spread relatively soon-ish, I'm going to write several practice lead stories and split them up between 3 blogs. So one here and 2 in seperate blogs as to not use too much space. Anyways, here goes.

 Yesterday evening, shots were heard from the Golden Gate mall by 51st Avenue after two armed gunmen stormed the mall and proceeded to rob several stores over the course of 3 hours. In that time, police responding to the scene formed a perimeter around the mall, and a siege quickly began. The men, threatning police with hostages, remained holed up in a jewelry store inside the mall until more specialized police units responded. A SWAT team entered the mall around 4:30 and quickly began to secure the mall, meanwhile the armed men were distracted by police negotiators. At around 4:50, members of the SWAT team breached the jewelry store from behind, a blind spot the robbers had not paid heed to. In a quick shock and awe fashion, the two suspects were apprehended and no blood was shed. Praised by many, the actions of the SWAT team were called 'textbook' and 'heroic' by the chief of police.

 Following armed robbery on Golden Gate mall, responding SWAT unit ends 3 hour long siege without firing a bullet. No hostages injured and both robbers apprehended.

When writing this lead I followed the very simple formula of briefly summarizing the story while hitting all the major points, which I think I did rather well.


Goodbye, and see you soon with another update! 

 Canva reference: 

https://www.canva.com/design/DAE_GK8z0Sk/0u9Od4ooZzELLwJIgn_GtA/edit

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