During this week, I have had the opportunity to write some news stories about speeches. The first one that I did was Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. It was actually more difficult than one would imagine. It is hard to keep from editorializing a story about a speech because it is really tempting to put your own emotion into the story. I realized that it is my job to report what happened, not interpret what happened.
It was also hard to get to the points using the inverted pyramid. Sometimes it is hard to only focus on certain key points when a speech has so many different points. The inverted pyramid is crucial to successful news-writing and that is something that I really tried to focus on this week when covering speeches.
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