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News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media, 7/e
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Exercise 2.1
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Exercise 2.1

Complete this exercise offline and then either e-mail or hand the exercise in to your instructor.

From a daily in your area, clip stories that were published primarily because of their timeliness. Do the same for stories that were published primarily because of proximity, conflict, eminence and prominence, consequence and impact, and human interest. Would any of the stories have been selected because they met more than one of the criteria?