Write leads using the below fact blocks using proper AP style, with datelines.
Download datelines.UseDaytona Beach datelines unless otherwise noted. Keep them as short aspossible (shoot for one sentence) and use ALL THE INFO and ONLY THE INFOin the fact blocks. Watch the AP style. There are AP style mistakes embedded in these fact boxed, so fix them. Remember to write in PAST tense (in most cases) and use verbs and articles (“a,””the,” etc.) These are not headlines — they are leads, and should bewritten in complete sentences. This will be graded for organization andcorrectness of expression.
- IMPORTANT: Use ALL of the bullet points in your leads and DO NOT add any information OR FACTS. I know this repeats instructions above, but every semester someone makes this mistake.
- EXAMPLE:
BUFFALO,N.Y. — One worker was killed and two others injured Friday when acrane collapsed at a construction site near the Market Arcade.
- Downtown jewelry store
- 31 thousand dollars worth of merchandise
- Early Sunday morning
- Thieves stole it
- Store is located in Daytona Beach
- Speaker coming to Embry-Riddle
- Speech is scheduled for Friday
- Speaker is a terrorism expert
- Speaker served on the staffs of two Presidents
- 7 at night
- ERAU’s Daytona Beach campus
- Daytona Beach city manager fired
- City manager of Daytona Beach
- Firing happened Thurs. night
- Managers name Tony Thomas
- City Commission fired him
- Thomas was convicted Tuesday of shoplifting
- Convicted by a Daytona Beach jury
- Port Orange single-family home
- Fire
- Severe damage
- Thursday night
- Family first saw fire when they returned home from movie
- Firefighters were battling fire when family returned home
- 2 fishermen
- Fishermen are from Daytona Beach area
- Missing
- Search called off due to inclement weather
- Decision made late Thursday afternoon
- Foo Fighters
- Daytona International Speedway announced this
- Daytona 500
- Grammy Award winners
- Rock band
- Will perform before race at speedway
- February 16th is the race day
- Car accident
- Sports utility vehicle
- Mother killed
- Car flipped on Ridgewood Avenue in Holly Hill
- Accident happened Monday
- Two small sons critically injured
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company announcement
- Opening new manufacturing plant in Daytona Beach
- Announcement was Tuesday
- Could be open as soon as summer 2025
- Expected to bring two hundred seventy jobs to area
- Daytona Beach dateline
- Forty thousand homes without power (at the time the story was written and posted online Friday)
- Sub zero temperatures
- Blizzard conditions
- Homes are in Green Bay
- Power went out Thursday night
- Powerful winter storm
- Green Bay, Wisconsin dateline
