Below you will find five articles. Please apply the following criteria to each of these. These are due Monday 7 November at the end of class. Below is a copy, but you have handouts in class. .
1. Write out the lead.
2. Is there a tease? If so, write it out.
3. What type of lead is it? standand? AP? quote? question/
4. Indentify the five w's and h in the story.
5. What verbs appear in the lead?
6. How does this article follow an inverted pyramid model? Explain using examples from the article?
7. Looking ahead for when you include interviews, how are the quotes integrated into the story?
STORY 1: Oakland port is shut down by Occupy protesters
Protesters shut down operations at Oakland's port on Wednesday in demonstrations against economic inequality and police brutality, which turned tense as the night wore on.
The protest by 5,000 people fell short of paralysing the northern California city that has been at the forefront of anti-Wall Street protests after a former US marine was badly wounded during a march.
But as evening fell, an official said maritime operations at the Oakland port, which handles about $39bn (£24bn) a year in imports and exports, had been "effectively shut down".
"Maritime area operations will resume when it is safe and secure to do so," the port said in a statement.
A port spokesman said officials hoped to reopen the facility on Thursday morning.
Protesters, who streamed across an overpass to gather in front of the port gates, stood on top of tractor-trailers stopped in the middle of the street.
Others climbed on to scaffolding over rail tracks as a band played a version of the Led Zeppelin song Whole Lotta Love, using amplifiers powered by stationary bike generators.
"The reason I'm here is I'm sick and tired of trying to figure out where I should put my vote between the lesser of two evils," student Sarah Daniel, 28, said at the port.
The atmosphere turned tense after a protester was apparently struck by a car in downtown Oakland, and incorrect reports spread that the person had died. Acting Oakland police chief, Howard Jordan, later said the pedestrian was taken to a local hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening.
As the night wore on, small groups were seen in local TV images running through the streets, trying to start small fires or climbing on top of moving television news vans.
At one point, several people appeared to force open the driver's-side door of a news van, but after a few tense moments the door closed again and the van drove away safely.
The anti-Wall Street activists, who complain bitterly about a financial system they believe benefits mainly corporations and the wealthy, aim to disrupt commerce with a special focus on banks and other symbols of corporate America.
The demonstrations centred on Frank H Ogawa Plaza adjacent to city hall, scene of a standoff last week between police and protesters.
Protesters, prior to marching on the port, also blocked the downtown intersection of 14th street and Broadway, where ex-marine Scott Olsen was seriously wounded with a head injury during a clash with police on 25 October.
Windows were smashed at several Oakland banks and a Whole Foods market, with pictures of the damage posted on Twitter.
Few uniformed police officers were spotted at the rallies, but Jordan said demonstrators would not be allowed to march beyond the gates of the port. He blamed the vandalism and unruliness on a small group he identified as anarchists.
Local union leaders, while generally sympathetic to the protesters, said their contracts prohibited them from proclaiming an official strike.
Oakland Unified School District spokesman, Troy Flint, said more than 300 teachers had stayed home, most of those having made formal requests the night before.
"We did have to scramble a little bit to cover the extra absences," Flint said, adding that some classes were combined but no students were left unsupervised.
Other residents such as Rebecca Leung, 33, who works at an architectural lighting sales company, went about their ordinary activities. Leung said she generally supported the protests.
"I don't really feel striking is necessary. I work for a small company, I don't work for Bank of America," she said.
The owner of a flower shop near the plaza protest site, meanwhile, said weeks of noisy rallies and ongoing encampment had hurt his small business.
"Business has not been the same. Everything has gone downhill around here, the noise, the ambience and the customers," the man, who identified himself as Usoro, said. "I can't afford to close down."
Olsen remains in an Oakland hospital in a stable condition.
Protest organisers say Olsen, 24, was struck by a teargas canister fired by police. Jordan opened an investigation into the incident but has not said how he believes Olsen was hurt.
Elsewhere, the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, told Wall Street protesters he would take action if circumstances warranted, saying the encampments and demonstrations were "really hurting small businesses and families".
In downtown Seattle, about 300 rain-soaked protesters blocked the street outside the Sheraton hotel where Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of the biggest US bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, was speaking at an event.
Earlier in the day, five protesters were arrested for trespassing after chaining themselves to fixtures inside a Chase bank branch, Seattle police said.
In Los Angeles, several hundred protesters marched through the downtown area in solidarity with their Oakland counterparts, while in Virginia protesters bought alarm whistles at their encampment in a public park in Charlottesville because women were concerned about their safety overnight.
STORY 2: Fukushima fears played down by Tepco
The Japanese power company Tepco has played down the detection of xenon at the melted-down Fukushima No 2 reactor, saying there is no evidence the nuclear reaction has started again.
Tepco said on Wednesday it had detected xenon, a fission byproduct, and as a precaution had poured into the reactor a mixture of water and boric acid, which helps prevent nuclear reactions.
"Analysis suggests that it was not a criticality," said Ai Tanaka, a spokeswoman for Tepco.
The Fukushima plant was crippled by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March. It has released radiation into the atmosphere ever since in the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl 25 years ago.
The fuel rods in the No 2 reactor and two other reactors melted down early in the crisis after the tsunami destroyed the plant's cooling system.
The company, which was widely criticised for its slow release of information immediately following the disaster, has since reduced the temperatures at the three damaged reactors from levels considered hazardous.
It hopes to declare a cold shutdown – when temperatures are stable below boiling point – by the end of this year.
Tepco said in October the amount of radiation being emitted from the complex had halved from a month earlier in the latest sign that efforts to bring the facility under control are progressing.
Story 3: Groom sues photographer, demands new wedding
Of all the many things that make up a wedding, few are more important than the photographs.
Long after the last of the cake has grown stale and the tossed bouquet has wilted, the photos endure, stirring memories and providing vivid proof that the day of one’s dreams took place.
So it is not particularly surprising that one groom, disappointed with his wedding photos, decided to sue. The photographers had missed the last dance and the bouquet toss, the groom, Todd J. Remis of Manhattan, said.
But what is striking, said the studio that took the pictures, is that Mr. Remis’s wedding took place in 2003 and he waited six years to sue. And not only has Mr. Remis demanded to be repaid the $4,100 cost of the photography, he also wants $48,000 to recreate the entire wedding and fly the principals to New York so the celebration can be re-shot by another photographer.
Re-enacting the wedding may pose a particular challenge, the studio pointed out, because the couple divorced and the bride is believed to have moved back to her native Latvia.
Although Justice Doris Ling-Cohan of State Supreme Court in Manhattan dismissed most of the grounds for the lawsuit, like the “infliction of emotional distress,” she has allowed the case to proceed to determine whether there was indeed a breach of contract. But she displayed a good deal of amusement about the lawsuit’s purpose in an opinion in January that quoted lyrics from the Barbra Streisand classic “The Way We Were.”
“This is a case in which it appears that the ‘misty watercolor memories’ and the ‘scattered pictures of the smiles ... left behind’ at the wedding were more important than the real thing,” the judge wrote. “Although the marriage did not last, plaintiff’s fury over the quality of the photographs and video continued on.”
'Unacceptable' pictures Mr. Remis is suing H & H Photographers, a 65-year-old studio known fondly among thousands of former and current Bronx residents because it chronicled their weddings, bar mitzvahs and communions.
One of the two founders, Curt Fried, escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna in September 1939 as a 15-year-old and was drafted into the United States Army, where he learned to shoot pictures assisting cameramen along the legendary Burma Road supply line to China during World War II. Mr. Fried recalled that in the late 1940s, Arthur Fellig, the celebrated street photographer known as Weegee, twice sought work at the studio when he needed money, but was turned down because he did not own a suit.
In November 2003, Mr. Remis, an equity research analyst, and his fiancée, Milena Grzibovska, stepped into the H & H studio, which was then in Riverdale, met with Mr. Fried and signed a contract to have photographs and videotape taken of their wedding the next month — on Dec. 28 — for $4,100.
It was a small party, with fewer than 40 guests, at Castle on the Hudson in Tarrytown. Photographs show a cheerful bride and groom surrounded by delighted relatives, including Ms. Grzibovska’s mother, Irina, and her sister Alina, who traveled from Latvia.
But a month after the wedding, when Mr. Remis returned to the studio to look over the proofs, he complained that the three-person crew had missed the last 15 minutes — the last dance and the bouquet toss. He noted in a deposition last July that the employees at H & H did not respond in a courtly fashion.
“I remember being yelled at more than I have ever been yelled at before,” Mr. Remis said.
In his lawsuit, he also complained that the photographs were “unacceptable as to color, lighting, poses, positioning” and that a video, which he had expected to record the wedding’s six hours, was only two hours long.
“I need to have the wedding recreated exactly as it was so that the remaining 15 percent of the wedding that was not shot can be shot,” he testified.
Mr. Fried, now 87, chuckles at this idea: “He wants to fly his ex-wife back and he doesn’t even know where she lives.”
Mr. Remis, who said at his deposition that he has not been employed since 2008, and his lawyer, Frederick R. McGowen, did not return messages left on their phones. Ms. Grzibovska did not respond to a message left through her Facebook page. The next court hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
Mr. Fried said Mr. Remis left the studio in 2004 with 400 proofs — essentially small photographs used for selecting a few dozen photographs for the album; Mr. Remis claims “the office kept everything.” But a 2004 magazine published by Mr. Remis’s alma mater, Bowdoin College, which is also online, displays a photograph of the bride and groom in a feature on alumni weddings. Mr. Fried said it was a photograph his firm took.
'Abuse of the legal system'? The couple separated around 2008 and their divorce, which Mr. Remis contends was amicable, was finalized in 2010. Mr. Remis sued in 2009, just before the statute of limitation was about to expire, according to Mr. Fried.
Mr. Remis testified that he wanted photographs of the wedding, even if it ended in divorce and even if Mr. Fried contended he already had them.
“It was unfortunate in its circumstances,” he said, “but we are very much happy with the wedding event and we would like to have it documented for eternity, for us and our families.”
Mr. Fried retired in 2004 and turned his half of the business over to his son Dan, who now operates the studio with Lawrence Gillet, a son of the other founder, from a loft in Irvington, in Westchester County.
Dan Fried said that the costs of defending the lawsuit had already matched the amount sought by Mr. Remis and that it was hurting his business’s bottom line. He said the case was “an abuse of the legal system.”
Mr. Remis’s lawyer works for Goodwin Procter, where Mr. Remis’s father, Shepard M. Remis, is a litigation partner. The younger Mr. Remis has testified that he is paying his lawyer himself.
Curt and Dan Fried are paying their lawyer, Peter Wessel, themselves, they said, and the costs — $50,000 — the time the suit has taken and the distress have taken a toll.
“I had a good life, thank God,” Curt Fried said, “and at the end of my life this hits me in the face.”
Story 4: Man shot on St. Paul Street
Rochester police are investigating a shooting on St. Paul Street.
It happened around 9:30 Wednesday night.
Police say a man was shot twice in his leg in front of a house. They say his injuries appear to be non-life threatening and he was transported to Strong.
Rochester Police are still investigating what led up to the shooting. They're not sure if it may have been a robbery attempt or gang-related. Currently, police have no suspects in custody.
Story 5: Watch Out For Richardson
The question started being asked midway through Alabama’s 2009 national championship season, especially by those who covered the team on a regular basis. It began as sort of a joke, but grew more legitimate as the season progressed.
How could somebody be considered for the Heisman Trophy if he isn’t even the best player on his own team?
That was the argument some observers were making that year against Alabama running back Mark Ingram. And not because anybody thought Ingram wasn’t a deserving Heisman winner. Far from it. By season’s end Ingram had rushed for a school-record 1,658 yards with 20 total touchdowns in 14 games. He amassed nearly 2,000 all-purpose yards, with more than half that total (1,075 yards) coming after defenders made initial contact. And when the game meant the most Ingram was at his best, averaging 189 all-purpose yards against six Top 25 opponents.
And yet nearly every day at practice, and occasionally during games, there was a running back on that team who looked better than Ingram. He was a little flashier, with quicker moves and greater straight-ahead strength.
His name was Trent Richardson, and he was a freshman who would have been a starter on probably 90 percent of the teams in the nation. But at Alabama he spent two seasons as Ingram’s understudy, showing flashes of greatness (1,451 yards rushing and 19 total touchdowns over two years) but largely biding his time until the backfield spotlight would be his alone.
That time is now, and Richardson is making the most of the moment. He is proving what many thought to be true two years ago. He is better than Ingram. And when No. 2 Alabama takes on No. 1 LSU this Saturday he will be the best player on the field, which might end up being the difference in a game between two teams that appear to be so evenly matched.
Through eight games this season, Richardson has gained 989 yards and already has as many rushing touchdowns (17) as Ingram had the entire 2009 season. If his current statistical pace is maintained through a 14-game season, he will finish with greater numbers across the board than Ingram had the year he won the Heisman: 1,731 yards rushing, 30 rushing touchdowns, 2,177 all-purpose yards.
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