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.
1 comment:
Good job, Renee. This is indeed a news-follow feature, and you IDed the nutgraph.
Mariel
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