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.