{"id":140,"date":"2026-03-30T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/?p=140"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:48:56","slug":"lsj-2-lesson-2-what-is-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/2026\/03\/30\/lsj-2-lesson-2-what-is-news\/","title":{"rendered":"LSJ 2. Lesson 2 : What is News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text\">\n<h1>2. Lesson 2 : What is News?<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>How to develop a strong news sense and recognise the different factors which dictate the strength and prominence of published stories. Identifying the professional skills and personal qualities required of the news reporter. How to make contacts and identify and follow up story leads.<br>\n<em><strong>Assessment tasks include:<\/strong><\/em><br>\nRewriting poorly written copy<br>\nFiling a 250-word news story<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Nunna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"455\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. Lesson 2 : What is News? How to develop a strong news sense and recognise the different factors which dictate the strength and prominence of published stories. Identifying the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}