Monday, February 21, 2005

Pope John Paul II: What's the Lead?

One of the best columns I receive in my Inbox is written by Terry Mattingly. Mattingly (www.tmatt.net) teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University and is senior fellow for journalism at the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. He writes "On Religion," a weekly column for the Scripps Howard News Service.

In this week's column, Mattingly asks several religious and mainstream journalists how they would lead - or start - their report about Pope John Paul II. (The lead is the first sentence of a news story.) If you were a journalist - and perhaps you are - what would your lead be?

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