The part of the chapter that I found interesting was titled “Cooking Up You Own Story Ideas.” I found this interesting because now that I am the News Editor for The Comment, I have the responsibility of thinking up some new ideas for the issues.
The book broke up different ways of formulating ideas, which is what I took out of the chapter. Now when I am “cooking” up story ideas I know that I can start by thinking of a topic and then make some boundaries. From there I will be able to ask questions that will need an answer, which will form a story idea.
I also need to make sure that I come up with stories that people will be interested in. Stories shouldn’t bore readers. It should intrigue them and answer the questions that they may have.
I guess I have learned a lot, but I also have a long way to go if I want to be a good journalist. This chapter helped me realize that some of the approaches that we may think is okay when we’re covering stories may not be the “correct” or “better” way of doing it. This part of the chapter helped me a lot.
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