{"id":33,"date":"2012-09-12T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-09-12T13:57:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:57:21","slug":"meet-the-new-boss-leads-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/2012\/09\/12\/meet-the-new-boss-leads-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Boss (Leads Exercise)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my News Feature and Writing class we’ve been discussing “leads,” the varying types, which work, and which ones don’t. For this exercise we were asked to pick a story and generate three different leads.<\/p>\n

“Meet the New Boss” was a feature article written by Josh Eells in Rolling Stone’s August 30, 2012 issue. A portion of the article can be found HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The original lead struck me as possibly being a mix of Contrast, Setting Scene, and maybe even Anecdote. Here are the three leads I chose:<\/p>\n

Quote – “It wasn’t like he turned into Rick Ross overnight.”<\/p>\n

Question – What do William Roberts, a corrections officer, and Rick Ross “The Boss,” an avid pot-smoking, rap mogul, have in common?<\/p>\n

Contrast – He’s the only man alive with a diamond encrusted medallion of his own face, drops $500 on a meal for himself, and has 40 different rides to choose from on a day to day basis. What you don’t know about Rick Ross “The Boss,” legally named William Roberts, is…<\/p>\n

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Rick Ross “The Boss” on the cover of Rolling Stone’s 1164 Issue<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my News Feature and Writing class we’ve been discussing “leads,” the varying types, which work, and which ones don’t. For this exercise we were asked to pick a story and generate three different leads. “Meet the New Boss” was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}