Basic News Writing

Austin district holds community budget forum tonight

Who?
Who is involved? Austin School District parent, and employees, and school board
Who does/did the situation affect? AISD Schools, AISD Employees
Who said so?School Board

What?
What is happening? The school board is making budget cuts
What did happen? They laid off Employees
What are the consequences? Employees will lose their jobs
What is different about this?They will not have their jobs anymore
What are the choices? They can vote  on whether to lay off employees.

When?
When did or will this happen? Last Week
When was this discovered? Last Week

Where?
Where did or will this happen? At the Budget Forum

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? To help close a $94.4 million Shortfall

How?
How did it or will it happen? When they found out there was going to be a shortfall
How much does it cost?$94.4 million
How many people does this affect? 1,153 Jobs, people
How do you feel about this? I think that it is going to be really hard for the people who are going to lose their jobs, i don't think they should lose their jobs, but they have to.

Velarde testifies he received HGH injections from Bonds' trainer

Who?
Who is involved? Randy Vekarde, Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds
Who does/did the situation affect? Greg Anderson
Who said so? Randy Velarde

What?
What is happening? prosecutors called witnesses to describe Anderson drug dealing, because Anderson was not there.
What did happen?Velarde Got injections of HGH from Anderson
What are the consequences?Not Mentioned
What is different about this?Not Mentioned
What are the choices?Not Mentioned

When?
When did or will this happen? During his baseball career
When was this discovered? When Valarde admitted it

Where?
Where did or will this happen? In Federal Court

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? Because Greg Anderson gave him drugs

How?
How did it or will it happen? Anderson gave him injections
How much does it cost? $500 to $800
How many people does this affect? Valarde, and Anderson
How do you feel about this? I think something should happen to both of them, because Valarde bought the drugs, and Anderson, sold the drugs to him and other players.

Radiation levels in seawater off Japan plant spike to all-time highs

Who?
Who is involved? Japan, Ocean People
Who does/did the situation affect? People of Japan
Who said so?Officials

What?
What is happening?Radiation in Japan seawater is raising to all time highs, and they do not know what caused it or how to stop it.
What did happen? The radiation in the water Raised high
What are the consequences? The water will have a lot of radiation, people cannot fish
What is different about this? They do not know how to stop the radiation levels from getting higher, and they do not know what caused it.
What are the choices? They do not know how to stop it.

When?
When did or will this happen? March 11 the eathquake
When was this discovered? March 31
Where? in waters off Japans Fukushima Daiichi Plant
Where did or will this happen? Japans Fukushima Daiichi Plant

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? Because of the neclear plants that exploded during the earthquake

How?
How did it or will it happen? The nuclear plant exploded, and it spread the radiation in a lot of places.
How much does it cost? 25 Trillion Yen, which is $300 billion
How many people does this affect? a lot of people, more than 11,400 people have died from the earthquake.
How do you feel about this? I feel very bad, because a lot of people are going to be affected, and because there is a lot of radiation everywhere, and because thousands of people have died, and it will cost a lot of money.

Student Of the Month Interview

1.What is your name. Orel
2.What grade are you in. Sophmore
3.How do you feel being the student of the month?  Awesome
4. What did you do to become the student of the month? Work Hard
5.Did you want to become the student of the month? Yes
6.Are your parents proud of you being student of the month? Yes
7.Do you think you should be student of the month? Yes
8.What academy are you in? New tech/Social Services
9.What are you majoring in? Health Science
10.What is your favorite school subject? Health Science
11.Do you plan on going to college? Yes
12.Which college do you plan to attend? UT
13.Do you get good grades? Sometimes
14.What do you need to do to become student of the month? Good Grades, hard work,
15.What is bad about being student of the month? Nothing
16.What is good about being student of the month? People know who you are, and what you do
17.Why do you think people voted for you? Because i am nice and i work hard
18. Do you play any sports? No
19.Are you in any other school activities?No
20.Have you ever been chosen for student of the month? No


Rewritten Questions
3.How do you feel being student of the month, and why do you feel that way?
4.What is everything you had to do to become student of the month?
5.Did you want to become student of the month why or why not?
6.Are your parents proud of you being student of the month and why are they proud of you.
7.Do you think you should be student of the month why or why not?
8.What academy are you in? Why are you in that academy?
9.What are you majoring in? Why are you majoring in that?
10. What is your favorite subject, and why is it your favorite?
11.Do you plan on going to college, and why do plan to attend college.
12.Which college you plan to attend and why do you want to attend that college?
13.Do you get good grades why or why not?
15.Is there anything bad about being student of the month? Why?
18.Do you play any sports if so which sports? If not why don't you play any sports.
19.Are you in any other activities? Which ones? if not why not?
20.Have you ever been chosen for student of the month? Why?

Sports/Action more details

1.
Travis Haughton
 Picture Stories

Problems - Back of the head, pictures that don't say anything, and not showing the rest of the body, or head.
Likes -  the picture with the gymnastics place, and a good photo that shows what the photo is about, like the baseball photo where the guy was trying to get the ball
 I thought it was alright, because some pictures were good, but a lot were not, because they did not show the body, or they did not show what the picture was about.

Carlos Delgado
Picture Story
Problems - Background, back of the head, the story not showing enough
Likes - there wasn't really anything that they liked about this portfolio.
I didn't really like this one because of the background, and things that would interfere with the picture, like covering other people or things that are coming out of the people.

Jordan Murph
Sports, stories
Problems - bad  lighting, photo not saying anything, things growing into the photo
Likes - The lighting, and the color
I liked this one in the beginning, because of the light and the color, until the end because the lighting went bad, and the pictures didn't say anything.

Justin Mott
Stories
Problems - Focus, portfolio building, and some pictures didn't tell anything, and didn't show enough
Likes - Point of view, Emotion in photos
I liked this one cause of the point of view, and the story, and the emotion.

2.Dustin Snipes
The judges liked the color, and the way everyone was doing something, and it was all a good moment.
I really liked it, i really liked the color, and the moment, and i do not think there was anything bad.\

3.Recap Video
They just went through all of the portfolios, and they just talked about who they thought was good, and what was bad about them, and how good the winner was.

4.
I agreed with the judges on the boxing picture, because it had good action, and the foreground was good, but the referee looked like he was about to fight to, and it kind of distracted the picture.
I didn't agree with the judges on the picture of the rugby, because i didn't really think it was that good it just showed a guy sticking his finger in a guys eye.

Happy, Akins, Building

I think this is an excellent example of happy, because it is a student that is really happy to be at school, and ready to learn! I think this photo has really good color, and the student is placed in the right place, in the right side of the photo I think I really took a good picture.

I think this is a good example of Akins, because it shows you how good, and creative we are, and how much we care about this school, by showing other people what we do here in one of our academies. I really think the eagle is good in the middle, and it has good color, but it kind of cut off the words, so that kind of messed it up, but I still like it.

I think this is a really good example of building, because it shows how nice and clean it looks inside Akins. I think the depth of the hallway really makes it look cool, and some of the people in the background makes it look cool, and I really like the lighting. I think a took a good photo

Japanese Earthquake

When i look at this photo, i feel really bad, because of all of the things that these people have gone through from all of the destruction that the earthquake and tsunami has done and we are just here not having to worry about anything like that. The photographer used depth, because you can see the mountains in the background.

This photo makes me feel really sad, because of the girl that is crying in the street, because of all of the destruction the earthquake has done to their houses, and they have no place to live now. The photographer used depth, because you can see all the destroyed building in the background.

Touching People

1. I think it is really cool just having people that do not know each other to be in a picture together, even though it would be kind of weird to touch a random person you do not know, its like a different kind of art, its a stranger portrait.
2.If somebody asked me to do that, i would feel kind of weird, but i would do it, because its kind of cool, because its different.
3. I think an unusual shoot would be having different people, like a poor person with a rich person take a picture together, because they do not really go together, that would be kind of cool.
4.The photographer just took portraits, with all of the people in the middle of the picture, and he did use good lighting, and good plain backgrounds, and sometimes if there were a lot of things in the background that would distract the person from the picture, he would blur it out so it doesn't distract.

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