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Make a Change:

Editorial

Despite the advent of fake news or possibly because of it News Articles can have a big impact on how someone views an issue and relates to the plight of others. In this task, you will be interviewing people and writing up a news article that will be published either online or in the local newspaper about an issue that is in your community. This could be an issue that is global and looking at how it affects your community.

 

Step 1 is to interview people involved.

There is also a unit standard around interviewing that you might want to look at but otherwise this will be more a media studies standard.

Here are some tips for giving an interview.

 

Step 2 is to gather information and facts about your issue.

 

Step 3 is to write your article.

And here is a site to help you with the news article part of the project.

 

Make sure you have:

 

1. Headline

2. Byline

3. Quotes

4. Statistics/facts

5. A nut graf

6. Photos

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