Chapter 2: Reporting the Story

Skill Building: Story Ideas

Remember that you can approach a topic in any number of different ways. It's often useful to begin by listing stakeholders—people who are involved or who would be affected by the story. Their perspective may give you an angle to pursue, and help you pose a "Let's find out…" question. To show you what we mean, we're going to do this for each of the topics on our list.

State students outscore national average on SAT test.
High levels of tree pollen plague allergy sufferers.
Government gives taxpayers one extra day to file income taxes.