NEWSPAPER

Brainstorm Ideas for Our Newsmagazine
In preparation for our first newsmagazine staff meeting on Monday morning, I’d like you to spend your weekend writing time brainstorming ideas. Please list at least TWO ideas for EACH genre. You’re not committing yourself to writing about any of these topics – we’ll put these up on a huge piece of paper and then people will choose which ones they want to write about. Remember: your readers will be your peers – other middle schoolers. Ask yourself: what do middle schoolers want to read about in a news magazine?


 * Directions: Beneath EACH journalism genre, list at least TWO ideas you have for our news magazine.**

NEWS ARTICLE topic ideas News articles report on current events – on tragedies, successes, changes, etc., in a community. What news articles would middle schoolers want to read (could be about our school, Juneau, Alaska, the U.S., or the world):

_Stop abuse of cats!- Reece Milks

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FEATURE ARTICLE topic ideas Feature articles look at an interesting topic/issue in an in-depth way. Topics include places to travel, fashion advice, politics, problems in society (like homelessness or alcoholism), new ideas in science, sports coverage, new phenomenon (like video game-playing):

_MLB Stats-- Shane Moller

_NHL Stats-- Shane Moller

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PROFILE topic ideas Profiles are short interviews of certain people that help readers to get to know those people better. Which people (whom we could interview easily) would middle schoolers want to read about?:

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_ REVIEW topic ideas News magazines publish reviews of video games, music, food/restaurants, cars, fashion, books, events, etc. What specific things could we review for our readers?:

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OPINION topic ideas The Opinion section is where writers get to vent their frustrations/thoughts about issues, people, events, problems, observations. About what topics do you think our readers would want to read our opinions?

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RANDOM TRIVIA topic ideas Newsmagazines publish random trivia to entertain their readers. These can include comic strips, interesting fact lists, quote pages, prediction pages, gossip pages, etc. What specific trivia do you think our readers will want to read?

_Moron Test-- called it! Hary Elizarde

_Sports Quiz-- Shane Moller

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OTHER??? We’ll have photos in our newsmagazine., as well as writing. Is there anything else you think we should put in it? List below: