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Interactive Journalism - Tutorial 8

Look up 2 feature stories. Analyze how it’s written and explain the type of structure, interviews carried out, quotes, and ending.

Rewrite the story with a different introduction (2-3 paras).


Channing Tatum so 'traumatised' about not playing Gambit that he can't watch Marvel movies.

Structure

The structure of this article is diamond structure. This is because this article is more on introduce it with a personal tale. In the first 2 paragraphs, the article introduces the main character and the issues which are Channing Tatum and his idea of “Gambit” an X-Men mutant spin-off movie before the idea for his indie movie, Dog. After the first 2 paragraphs that mentioned the information and it continued with the interview with Channing Tatum.


Interviews

In the interview, the article focused on the feeling and thinking of Channing Tatum for the movie, “Gambit”. The interview is about his love with the “Gambit” script, how he's feeling after knowing “Gambit” went away and his hope for Disney to reconsider the movie again.


Quotes

In the articles, there are used a lot of direct quotes from Channing Tatum to strengthen the influences on the readers about his feeling on this story. Direct quotes can easily helps reader to listen to Channing Tatum by his words used such as “this s***’s just fly, bro!”


Ending

This article is ended with the wish of Channing Tatum that hoping Disney will reconsider this project again and he would love to play Gambit. Since this article is more on the feature story of Channing Tatum and “Gambit”, this ending is suitable for those readers who are interested to watch “Gambit” have the chances to show in the future.


Rewritten Introduction

The original introduction is started with Channing Tatum mentioned that his road to co-directing his first movie, Dog. Only at second paragraph mentioned the “Gambit”. Hence, I would suggest combining these 2 paragraphs. This can help the reader to know the story in the first paragraph that matched the headline.


In the recent Variety cover story, Channing Tatum talks about the journey of developing Gambit, a raunchy stand-alone movie based on the X-Men mutant with his producer partner Reid Carolin during promotion for his first co-directing movies, Dog.

This superhero project "Gambit" was set up at Twentieth Century Fox in 2016, and Tatum and Carolin had lobbied to share the director's chair.
 

What you eat shows in your body and mind

Structure

This article is used the hourglass structure. This is because the story started with a lead that mentioned about eating an unhealthy diet will have serious consequences. Then, it brings out the interviewee who is Dr. Stephen Kopecky, a preventive cardiologist. It’s started with smoking and genetics will how to cause the health issues in the first part of the body in the articles. There is a small transition turn between the first part and second part of the body in the articles. After that, continued the article with how to solve the problem by changing eating habits.


Interviews

The interviews in this article are more onward on Dr. Stephen Kopecky sharing his knowledge and advice to the reader.


Quotes

In this article, direct quotes are used lesser due to its is more professional information. This is because direct quotations are more on expression. In this article, direct quotes had been used for advice.


Ending

The ending of the articles is on the advice of the reader. However, this article did not have a proper ending. For example, the articles can be ending with a conclusion rather than a piece of advice.


Rewritten Introduction

The introduction in this article is good and proper that suits this article by telling the reader the fact that eating an

an unhealthy diet can have serious consequences.




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