Someone Please help me Journalism:
Analyze a News Story

Find a news story in a newspaper or magazine, online or on television and analyze it.

What was the headline?
What are the 5Ws and the H?
a. Who?
b. What?
c. When?
d. Where?
e. Why?
f. How?
How does the article end?
Were the facts arranged from most important to least important?
Were there any quotes?
Who wrote the article?
Why did they write the article?
How might others see the article?
How many people are affected by the story?
Are the sources credible?
Thinking about the Analysis:

Did answering the questions help you understand the story better?
Do the questions change your perspective on the article?

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.