Leads

Newsweek: Islamic State Kills 85 More Members of Iraqi Tribe
http://www.newsweek.com/islamic-state-kills-85-more-members-iraqi-tribe-281570

This lead sufficiently answers many immediate questions, as it is a hard news lead and is therefore an immediate-identification lead. I found it interesting that the lead was organized as its own paragraph, so it is a one sentence lead paragraph. I think it works because the sentence is a little longer for a lead, and it also satisfies all of the news questions except for How.


Newsweek: Why Do Some Die From Ebola and Others Survive?
http://www.newsweek.com/why-do-some-die-ebola-and-others-survive-281157

This lead is an immediate-identification lead, because it starts with how many people died as opposed to delaying that fact. It is a fairly satisfactory lead, but is made very strong with the sentence that is followed up by it that answers the remaining questions. Unlike the first story I analyzed, this one is made up of two smaller sentences, instead of one long sentence. It is a hard news story because the study it's talking about was published only the day before.


Newsweek: 'Distractions Is on the Syllabus': Poet Explains Why He's Teaching a Penn Class Called 'Wasting Time on the Internet'
http://www.newsweek.com/distraction-syllabus-poet-explains-why-hes-teaching-penn-class-called-wasting-time-280858

The lead in this story is interesting. Most interesting to me, is they quoted a tweet in the very first sentence of the article. It is a soft news story, so they quoted tweet can work for the story. The story is designed to entertain and inform, so they purposely held off important questions like Why and How is this class relevant and worthwhile. The nut graph of the story is actually a few paragraphs in, because it finally explains why the class is being offered and how it is going to teach the students, which is the actual importance of the story.