This round begins my turn to be the Writer/Editor. I’m still doing a lot of research because my story is going to involve a lot of different information and sources (we are going to be writing about the I-95 HOT lanes). The reporting/researching portion of this story, I suspect, will be the hardest. However, it’s never too early to consider different story structures, to figure out which I can use to best report the issue.

Best case scenario I can think of so far is that I’ll have enough information from the construction aspect, the tolling/financial aspect, and the people effected by it aspect to be able to use the diamond structure. It’s not going to be hard news because people are already know about it, and hard news stories about it have been written already. Instead, I want to take a humanized angle on the story. Therefore, it is my goal to find commuters or residents that will be affected by the HOT lanes often and use their opinions on the matter as anecdotes to open and close my story. I will, of course, still include logistical information and new developments, but the hard news approach has really been overdone for this topic and I want to write something different. This means I will be throwing out the beloved inverted pyramid structure I know and love so much–haha–!