Friday, April 1, 2011

Basic News Writing

5 Ws and the H

The basic news questions provide the skeleton for stories.

Who?  Austin District holds community budget.
Who is involved? The city of Austin.
Who does/did the situation affect? It affected the schools by laying off hundreds of employees to help close an anticipated $94.4 million shortfall.       

Who said so?  The Aisd Administration And the city of austin

What?School budget cuts.
What is happening? The Administration decided to make budget cuts to Save money from the 94.4 million dollar shortfall. 
What did happen? Austin is suffering from a money shortfall so they decided to cut back and they started with the schools.                        
What are the consequences? Many teachers in different fields are going to lose their jobs.  
  What is different about this? That Austin had too make a major sacrifice.
What are the choices?  Fire teachers or close schools

When? April 11
When did or will this happen? Through 2012 and 13
When was this discovered? A week from 3/30/11

Where? Austin TX
Where did or will this happen? In bowie high school.

Why? Because of the budget cuts.
Why did this happen or will it happen? Because Austin is millions of dollars in dept

How? By Firing teachers.
How did it or will it happen? Cutting jobs out of the schools.
How much does it cost? $688 million dollars.
How many people does this affect?  They are cutting 1,153 jobs
How do you feel about this? Im upset that they would start with the schools because we need education.

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