Journalism Data story assignment
Write a story of 700 words based on the information from the census or any other resource with numbers, polls, statistics, election results and any kind of data following the guidelines below:
- Inverted pyramid style
- Proper lead
- Proper headline
- AP style, correct grammar and punctuation
- Only factual information
- Short and concise
- Based on data
- Include some background information
- Include a video of your interview (you completed it two weeks ago)
- Include quotes from your primary source in your article (you completed it two weeks ago)
- Include a visualization (you completed it last week)
Example of a data story:
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/01/09/794851835/for-some-d-c-parents-it-s-too-expensive-to-work