“In that instant I realized that journalism was not just about regurgitating the facts but about figuring out the point. Finally, he said, “The lead to the story is ‘There will be no school next Thursday.’” “It was a breathtaking moment,” Ephron recalls. Then he laid them aside and paused for a moment. According to Ephron, she and most of the other students produced leads that reordered the facts and condensed them into a single sentence: “Governor Pat Brown, Margaret Mead, and Robert Maynard Hutchins will address the Beverly Hills High School faculty Thursday in Sacramento.blah, blah, blah.” The teacher collected the leads and scanned them rapidly. Robert Maynard Hutchins, and California governor Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown.” The budding journalists sat at their typewriters and pecked away at the first lead of their careers. Among the speakers will be anthropologist Margaret Mead, college president Dr.
Peters, the principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire high school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. The teacher reeled off the facts: “Kenneth L. They would write the lead of a newspaper story.
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As students sat in front of their manual typewriters, Ephron’s teacher announced the first assignment. To get the facts, you track down the five Ws-who, what, where, when, and why. Although the students had no journalism experience, they walked into their first class with a sense of what a journalist does: A journalists gets the facts and reports them. Ephron still remembers the first day of her journalism class. She became a journalist because of her high school journalism teacher. Ephron started her career as a journalist for the New York Post and Esquire.
“Nora Ephron is a screenwriter whose scripts for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle have all been nominated for Academy Awards.
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