non traditional lead

here is a link to a non traditional lead
The lead is a quote lead. The article opens with a snip of a quote and then the second sentence is a full quote. It does not work very well, because the quote is so short it does not make much sense to the topic. It is very brief, but the quote in the first sentence is so short is means nothing to the topic. It could have easily been left out and put in a different part of the article.

blog #2 news follow feature

here's an example of a news feature follow

TOKYO, Sept. 15 — Since the credit crisis started shaking the world financial
markets this summer, many professional traders have taken big losses. Another,
less likely group of investors has, too: middle-class Japanese homemakers who
moonlight as amateur currency speculators.

Ms. Itoh is one of them. Ms.
Itoh, a homemaker in the central city of Nagoya, did not want her full name used
because her husband still does not know. After cleaning the dinner dishes, she
would spend her evenings buying and selling British pounds and Australian
dollars.

When the turmoil struck the currency markets last month, Ms.
Itoh spent a sleepless week as market losses wiped out her holdings. She lost
nearly all her family’s $100,000 in savings.

This is a news follow feature story. It is because it follows the event of online currency trading that went downhill over summer. This does not follow breaking news at this moment because this happened a couple months ago, but it does follow a breaking news event. It also tells a story about a woman who went through the crash. She invested a lot of money in the currency trading and lost most of it because of the crash.

It contains a nutgraph that starts out by saying,"Tens of thousands of married Japanese women ventured into online currency trading in the last year and a half, playing the markets between household chores or after tucking the children into bed."

It explains exactly what the story is and who was involved in it. These women are just examples of what they went through.

My bio

My name is Renee Stuart. I am a 22 year old graduating senior at California State University Northridge. I am majoring in Journalism with an emphasis in public relations. This is my blog for the journalism 310 class that meets on Wednesday afternoons.

I have lived in Southern California my entire life, so I did not want to attend school far away. My parents and my brother still live in Santa Clarita, where I am from. My brother just started school at a local community college, so it is nice to be close to him in case he needs help.
Staying close to home let me work close to home and go to school at my convenience. I work at a coffee shop in my home town. I also work part time with my mom. It is just to make a little extra money while I am in school.

In the very little free time I have, I try to hang out with my boyfriend, Casey. We have known each other for four years now. I still have my best friends from elementary school that I see occasionally. One of my best friends and I are even in the same major. So it is nice to have her around.

I am just a normal girl trying to make it through school and start my life.