Wednesday, November 5 pulling out news leads and analyzing, as to what type of lead is featured

Last grade for this marking period.  You have until Friday to turn in any missing work, at which point the assignment will be a zero. 
Learning target: Identifying the specific type of lead used in a 

news article and how verb choice engages the reader.

Why is the inverted pyramid so important to journalists? 


1. For readers, they can skim the top of a story and know they have read the most important information.

2. For editors, they can cut the bottoms off of a story and know they’re still saving the most important part for readers.

3. For writers, they have an easy way to organize their thoughts — from most important to least important.

Below you will find  5 current news stories. 

1. In a word document, copy out the lead and then identify 
the following:

2.  Type of lead: name lead (who), event lead (what), time lead 

(when), place lead- (where), cause lead (why) or manner lead 

(how)


3. Underline the verb (s) used in the lead. 


4. Bold any adjectives used in the lead.


5. In a complete sentence, answer the following for each. Why 

specifically is this an effective news lead? Draw on your 

previous knowledge of what makes a good lead. Check 

Monday's blog, if needed to remind yourself of the qualities of 

a good lead.


6. Send along, as usual.

News story 1

Pirate Bay co-founder 'TiAMO' arrested in Thailand

Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, known to hackers as TiAMO, was detained in the north-eastern Thai town of Nong Khai.

He was subject to an international warrant after he was convicted in 2009 of aiding copyright infringement.

Pirate Bay, which offers an expansive list of links to pirated content, is one of the world's most-visited sites.

The 36-year-old Swede was convicted by a Swedish court five years ago.

He and three others were given one-year sentences and ordered to pay $3.6m (£2.4m) in damages.

Neij fled Sweden whilst on bail.

"Mr Neij was detained ... while trying to cross into Thailand from Laos where he had been living since 2012," Thailand regional police chief Chartchai Eimsaeng told reporters.

Neij had been living in Laos since 2012 and travelled nearly 30 times to Thailand, where he has a house on the resort island of Phukat, Maj Gen Eimsaeng added.

Another Pirate Bay co-founder, Gottfrid Warg, was arrested in Cambodia in 2012 and sent back to Sweden to serve his sentence for the same conviction, as well as face a separate hacking trial in Denmark.

Last week, he was sentenced by a Danish court to three-and-a-half years in prison for hacking into computers and illegally downloading files from IT giant CSC.

News story 2

Mexican mayor arrested over students’ abduction

Police have detained the former mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala, who officials say hat left six dead and 43 missing.José Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were arrested inMexico City without resisting, according to two security officials. They provided no other details.

The couple were in the custody of the attorney general’s office, where they were giving statements. More than a month after the attacks, Mexican authorities still have not determined the whereabouts of the 43 students, undermining President Enrique Peña Nieto’s claims that Mexico has become safer under his watch.

The students disappeared after an attack by police on the rural teachers’ college in Iguala, which is in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Authorities say it was ordered by Abarca, who thought the students were aiming to interrupt a speech by Pineda, and was carried out by police working with the Guerreros Unidos cartel. Authorities say Pineda was an operative in the cartel.

The search for the students has taken authorities to the hills above Iguala, where 30 bodies have been found in mass graves but not identified so far as any of the students. Last week, the search turned to a gully near a rubbish dump in the neighbouring city of Cocula, but still no remains have been identified.

News story 3

U.S. officials consider striking another militant group in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra

By Karen DeYoung November 3 at 8:58 PM  Follow @karendeyoung1

U.S. officials are weighing whether to broaden the air campaign in Syria to strike a militant group that is a rival to the Islamic State and that is poised to take over a strategically vital corridor from Turkey.

Extremists from the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group were said Monday to be within a few miles of the Bab ­al-Hawa crossing in northwestern Syria on the Turkish border, one of only two openings through which the moderate Free Syrian Army receives military and humanitarian supplies provided by the United States and other backers.

Over the weekend, rebels said Jabhat al-Nusra forces swept through towns and villages controlled by the Free Syrian Army in Idlib province, west of Aleppo. Rebel groups associated with the Free Syrian Army were routed from their main strongholds, with scores of fighters fleeing toward Turkey or defecting to join the militants, according to opposition activists.

Apart from one attack by Tomahawk missiles against an ­al-Qaeda cell within Jabhat al-Nusra in late September,when the Syrian airstrikes began, U.S. and Arab warplanes have been targeting the Islamic State, a separate group that the administration has made clear is its primary target in Iraq and Syria.

The recent fighting in northwestern Syria has been taking place a long way from areas farther east where U.S. and Arab warplanes have been pounding Islamic State positions.

But U.S. concern has grown rapidly in recent days amid fears about the border crossing, according to senior administration officials who spoke about internal discussions on the condition of anonymity.

Officials cautioned that no proposal for expanded airstrikes has reached the level of decision-making, and its main advocates may not include the White House.

New story 4

Fresh Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone raises fears of new infection chain

A fresh outbreak of Ebola in a part of Sierra Leone where the virus was thought to have been contained has raised fears of a new, uncontrolled infection chain that could send the death toll soaring.

A Red Cross ambulance team was sent to the remote district of Koinadugu, which had prided itself on being the only area to have kept Ebola at bay, from on Tuesday to urgently collect 30 corpses for medical burial.

The outbreak is a major setback for the Ebola response force and the district, which two weeks ago remained resolved to control the spread of the virus that has officially infected 5,338 people and claimed 1,510 lives in the country.

Koinadugu has been operating a self-imposed quarantine for four months, thanks to the intervention of an expat businessman, Momah Konte, who returned from Washington and worked with local officials and tribal chiefs to try to prevent the spread.

The Red Cross said an emergency burial team was making the five-hour journey from Freetown on Tuesday to collect the bodies in the Nenie chiefdom east of the district’s capital Kabala.

A spokesman said that there were reports of a further 25 ill with Ebola and another 255 being monitored after coming into contact with the dead and the sick.

Ebola outbreaks over time

13,567 total number of cases as of 31 October 2014

News Story 5

Pakistani Christian Couple Burned Alive in Kiln for Torching Quran

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Christian couple were allegedly burned alive in an industrial kiln in Pakistan on Tuesday after angry workers discovered they had set fire to several verses of the Quran, a local activist said. Shahbaz Maseeh, 26, and his wife Shama Bibi, 24, were attacked by colleagues at the brick factory where they worked in Punjab province, according to Mushtaq Gill, chief advocate at Pakistani minority rights group LEAD. He said they had planned to flee their town with their three young children.

"A mob of several dozen attacked the building where they were, " said Gill, whose organization’s full name is the Legal Evangelical Association Development. "They broke their legs so they couldn't run and then threw them in the fire. Only some bones and hair were found at the site." Punjab province is home to the majority of Pakistan's around four million Christians. Gill said that word got out over the weekend that several verses of the Quran were among items burnt by Bibi after they were left behind by her deceased father. Setting fire to the religious text is considered blasphemy in Pakistan. While technically punishable by death under strict Islamic law, it is more common for vigilante mobs to take matters into their own hands. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a police official told NBC News up to 35 people were believed to be involved in the attack and that arrests were under way.