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You are a reporter on a local news team, competing against the other reporters, and the clock, to turn a real news event into the best news story.
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As a reporter, you'll have limited time to collect story parts, including quotes, sources, tag lines, and sign-offs. You’ll combine these pieces with your news event to build your story.
The story you create can be simple...
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Or more complex...
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Think of Action News as rhetorical Tetris; or an anthropomorphic set of refrigerator magnet poetry after it went to college and got a journalism degree.