Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Sweet Tweets

Multimedia journalists in Dr. Stacy Spaulding’s Newswriting course are practicing the AP's new 1-2-3 filing system with tweets to Twitter and posts to Blogger. Here are three sweet Tweets.

Jbyrne’s tweet is a pretty good headline because it is concise and uses the S-V-O format.
Budget cuts stunt new hire growth in Towson System

Kate1hop presents a lead that made me want to read on. In this article, the streamlined recycle bin is the story and the subject of her declarative sentence. This lead really summarizes the article and gives the what, where, when, and why.
Single-stream recycling to eliminate confusion with about 2,800 bins in residence halls and University buildings by December.

And finally, nicolebellman’s lead covering the TU-UR game summarizes the outcome while giving major details such as score and influential factors (the 'why').
Tigers defeated by Spiders due to turnovers and intercepts, 45 to 14. QB Schaefer and Tigers' defense at fault.

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