Nick's Journalism Blog

This article  on Vice is about how weed smokers have 20 percent more sex than the normal person. It is definitely a soft news article, because the topic itself is sort of amusing in a way, and the article isn't about anything that's exactly hard hitting. This article would be interesting to people who are avid weed smokers, and maybe it's hard news to them, but to the average reader, this article is just an entertaining read. This article  on Vice is about how Canada payed 31 Million dollars to three Canadians tortured in a Syrian prison. I think this article is definitely hard news, because it invokes a lot of emotion, especially for a Canadian reader. It's an interesting article that is about very serious topics, such as torture, so I think that makes it a hard news article. This article on CBC is about twins that were conjoined at the head. This may seem like just a soft news article, but I honestly believe it has sort of a blurred line between hard and soft new

Cubs of the Caliphate Timing - 4/4 We have been hearing about ISIS for years now, always hearing about how they need to be stopped and how bad they are. It's always nice to get another update on what's happening with the group, and it's especially nice to hear a story about the people that have gotten out of ISIS. I think this article deserves a 4/4 for timing because it is an update on ISIS. Significance - 4/4 The news rarely talks about the people that manage to escape from ISIS and the ones that attempt to get help. I think that it is very significant to hear a story about the kids that were in ISIS and are now trying to escape from the group, because it helps show how not every member of ISIS wants to be apart of the group and are sometimes forced into it. I give this a 4/4 because I think the people who have escaped are significant and the article shows another side to these people than the normal side we all see. Proximity - 2/4 This story takes place nowhere

Tiny Man Robs Bank This past Saturday, the local bank in the town of Chocoville was robbed by known tiny man, Albert Buxaplenty. Charlie White, a bank teller that was working at the time of the robbery, says "When he first entered the bank, we all thought it was a kid that had gotten lost and wandered into the bank for help. We soon realized that this was no kid once he had started yelling "Give me the money!" and things like that." According to White, the man had caused quite a ruckus when he started screaming about money, and claimed that he had a gun. It was later found out that Buxaplentys 'gun' was actually just a finger gun that he was concealing in his pocket. Nobody even attempted to stop him from robbing the bank, due to the fear of him having a deadly weapon with him. So Albert managed to fill his pockets with money from the bank. "Filling his pockets" means that Albert was able to stuff thirty dollars into his pockets and dash.

Edmonton attack suspect facing terrorism charges was investigated by RCMP in 2015 At 8:15 pm this last Saturday in Edmonton, a violent rampage began with a Somali refugee hitting a police officer with his car, stabbed him repeatedly, fled, stole a u-haul, and continued his rampage, running over four people, before being pulled over and arrested. The suspect in question had previously been investigated by police for sharing his extremist views. This article, which was written by Jana G. Pruden, Marty Klinkenberg, Karen Howlett, and Morgan Bockneck for the Globe and Mail, is very effective in how it conveys the story. The lead of the story hooks you in by telling that the suspect had been investigated beforehand, and was shown to have some radical beliefs. It continues to tell that the same man that was investigated reemerged, and went on a deadly rampage. "This weekend, that same man emerged as the suspect in a violent rampage that left a police officer and four other people in

There are some obvious differences between the early newspapers and the newspapers of today. Modern newspapers have changed in how they are presented because, unlike early newspapers, they now have pictures that relate to the articles, and are in colour. The news that is put into newspapers has changed too, back then we could only get four pages worth of news, but now we can get much more stories about both local and global news. Now we can read the newspaper and get information about more than just what happened in a single small city, but back then all we really could read about was our own community. Also today we have news that we can read online, so we can find out about any topic at any time we want, and we can watch videos about topics that interest us and news online also often contains links to more information about the article, so nowadays we get the chance to get more information on news that interests us. I personally don't think that the government should have the s