A good newspaper article include 6 elements (Headline, byline, placeline, lead, body and quotation). In this lesson, Mr. P. will list the elements of a newspaper writing and will explain how to write it. This lesson is designed for intermediate students who wish to improve their English, and for those above levels who wish to clear up doubts about this topic.
Watch, Listen & Speak English ! Mr. P. is a Canadian English Teacher/Coach from Toronto, in Canada.
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Jimmy Hoffa shows up for trial
1989 : In May nearly a million Chinese students and others held mass protests calling for greater democracy and an end to corruption at Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, but on June 4th Chinese troops with tanks and armored cars stormed Tiananmen Square killing hundreds of protesters when firing into the crowd indiscriminately and arresting thousands of pro democracy protesters some of who are still in jail.
1919 : The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
1934 : Following severe droughts lasting from the mid Twenties which caused large areas of farming land to turn into a giant "Dust Bowl" mainly in the great plains region of the Midwest. Farmers were leaving the land and FDR provided drought relief as part of His “New Deal” policies , and other badly affected areas with major unemployment.
1937 : Unusual early summer weather was experienced throughout the western half of the United States. A huge dust storm sweeps from Oklahoma westward . The extreme weather continued with a blizzard around the Colorado and Montana area and extreme cold temperatures. The southwest experienced flood conditions turning the dust bowl into a mud bowl.
1940 : The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis. More about the Dunkirk Evacuation
1942 : Glenn Wallichs for Capitol Records came up with the idea of sending out "promotional" copies of records to radio announcers around the U.S.
1942 : The Battle of Midway began when the Japanese navy attacked Midway thinking the US forces would quickly be wiped out but due to clever reconnaissance and by letting the Japanese believe there would be little resistance The US were able to send 55 U.S. dive-bombers which took full advantage of the poor strategy, and sunk three of the four Japanese carriers, all cluttered with aircraft and fuel. The attack on Midway resulted in the loss of 322 aircraft and 3,500 men from the Japanese Navy.
1944 : The United States Army enters Rome during World War II, which leads to the liberation of the city.
1958 : The bodies from one of Mexico's worst air disasters were brought to Guadalajara, Mexico to await identification. A plane carrying at least 45 people crashed into El Picacho Peak two days before during its takeoff in an electrical storm. The army searched many houses in a nearby village, looking for looted belongings of the victims of the crash.
1971 : United States narcotics agents and Spanish police apprehend a French couple smuggling 240 pounds of heroin. The heroin had an estimated street value of 35 to 40 million dollars and was made in secret laboratories in France. The smugglers, Jean Pierre Pilato and Marie-Yvonne Carretro, were arrested near Silla.
1982 : The British government and the Welkome Foundation donate 1 million Polio vaccinations to Jamaica. The estimated value of the vaccinations is $1 million Jamaican dollars. This gift is viewed as a big step in combating the outbreak of the disease.
1984 : Bruce Springsteen released his best selling album today Born in the U.S.A.
1991 : Following the easing of tensions as the cold war between east and west ends, the UK joins other NATO countries in announcing cuts in spending on Britain's Military forces. The British Defense Secretary Tom King has announced that more than one third of infantry in the Army is to go.
2003 : Martha Stewart is indicted on nine criminal counts, including obstruction of justice, securities fraud, and conspiracy in the ImClone stock scandal.
2007 : As the run up to the decision of which Democratic Presidential Hopeful will win, the latest polls puts Hillary Clinton as number 1, and Barack Obama and John Edwards in the next two spots suggests the race will be between these three although none of the others have announced they intend to drop out of the race. Candidates include: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel.
2008 : Following the refusal by the ruling military junta in Burma to allow foreign aid to land, British, French and US Naval Ships are now planning to leave Burma's coastline because of the continued refusal of the government to allow them to land helicopters and other supplies to help victims of Cyclone Nargis. The Cyclone has left more than 133,000 people dead or missing and 2.4 million facing starvation.
2008 : A Japanese space lab successfully attached to the International Space Station. The billion dollar laboratory was brought to the space station by the shuttle Discovery and was to be assembled in three pieces. It was equipped to study material and biomedical sciences and was as large as a bus.
2009 : Famed B-movie and Kung Fu actor, David Carradine, was found dead in his Bangkok hotel room while filming a movie. The seventy-two year old actor was found hanging in his closet, but the cause of death was unknown by investigators despite the initial reports of suicide. Carradine had been part of a well known family of actors including his brothers Keith, Bruce, and Robert, as well as his father John.
2010 : Fast food giant, McDonald's, announced the recall of over twelve million Shrek-themed glasses. The company claimed that the paint used to decorate the glasses was tainted with cadmium, a toxic metal that could cause severe damage after long-term exposure. The company was worried that prolonged use could harm children.
2012 : Activists in China have been arrested and put under increased surveillance on the 24th anniversary of the Tianamen Square protests in which the Chinese army shot hundreds of civilians dead while they rallied for democracy.
2013 : US car maker Ford has announced the recall of 465,000 vehicles worldwide over a possible fuel leak. Some of the models being recalled included the Fusion Explorer, Taurus, Flex, some police vehicles and Lincoln vehicles as well.
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By William Turvill
News Corp has completed its $295m acquisition of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Base Chemicals business.
The business will now operate under the brand Chemical Market Analytics. It will be part of Dow Jones’ OPIS division.
S&P Global and IHS Markit were asked to divest of both OPIS (the Oil Price Information Service) and Base Chemicals as part of their merger, which completed in February.
Source: Press release
Deal size: $295m
Country: US
Status: Officia
PRESS RELEASE | GANNETT
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) has announced a strategic organizational restructuring with the creation of two new U.S. operating business units, Gannett Media and Digital Marketing Solutions (DMS), which will be led by Maribel Perez Wadsworth and Kris Barton as presidents of each business respectively. The evolved corporate structure is designed to align Gannett’s subject matter expertise and resources with favorable growth opportunities.
“This reorganization ensures our consumer and B2B businesses are strategically optimized for our next stage of growth with incredibly experienced leadership at the helm while championing our culture of inclusion and driving our long-term goals for sustainable revenue and cash flow growth,” said Michael Reed, Gannett chairman and chief executive officer. “Improving the efficiency of our operations will enable the acceleration of Gannett’s digital future as a data and technology subscription-led business.”
As president of Gannett Media, Wadsworth will oversee an expansive organization that prioritizes content, news, business-to-business (B2B) and commitment to subscribers while continuing to accelerate Gannett’s digital subscriber growth. She and her team will focus on the subscriber journey, ensuring customer satisfaction and attracting new audiences by optimizing the legacy business to drive print stabilization and digital growth for the media organization with a digital-first lens on all efforts.
Wadsworth is uniquely qualified for this role as she has been an instrumental member of Gannett for more than 25 years, dating back to her start as a reporter at the Rockford Register Star in Illinois. Her business and industry expertise includes running Gannett’s news division overseeing more than 4,000 journalists across more than 230 local news organizations and the flagship publication USA TODAY. In 2015, she was named Gannett’s first chief strategy and transformation officer and has helped architect Gannett’s digital subscription strategy. She is also a recognized leader in the development of women and minority leaders in the newsroom, currently serves on the board of directors of the Associated Press and Skillshare, and as chair of the News Media Alliance, and president of the International News Media Association. She also is a trustee of her alma mater, the University of Miami.
“It is both a great a privilege and responsibility to lead Gannett Media as we build a strong future,” said Wadsworth. “My focus is on strengthening our journalism — this is our mission, and dramatically diversifying our content portfolio for growth — this is our promise as a vibrant, next-generation media company.”
As president of Digital Marketing Solutions, Barton brings a unique mix of business, design and technical acumen to the position. He is dedicated to growing DMS offerings as a differentiated marketing platform. He and his team will further the transformation of the DMS business to ensure loyalty from existing customers who value the platform while attracting new customers to engage with the available digital solutions. This includes building a complementary business model with streamlined, do-it-yourself SaaS offerings for new customer segments.
Barton’s expertise makes him the most equipped to drive the next phase of innovation. He has served as Gannett’s chief product officer since 2017, leading product development for Gannett’s consumer and marketing products. Previously, he led a global team as ReachLocal’s chief product officer overseeing product and technology, receiving dozens of industry awards including Google and Microsoft innovation honors. Barton served as chief operating officer at Nero, a multimedia software company, and was instrumental in developing a strategy that enabled the company to become the largest mobile software developer for Android devices. He held various leadership roles at Microsoft Corporation leading the global teams for MSN.com across over 50 countries, as well as for Microsoft Office where he also ran incubation teams that converted traditional Microsoft software applications to SaaS solutions pioneering Web 2.0. Barton is a graduate of Brigham Young University.
“It is a great privilege to serve as president of the Digital Marketing Solutions business and work with best-in-class category experts helping drive the future of Gannett, but more importantly, to provide digital solutions for thousands of local businesses across the country,” said Barton. “Local businesses are core to the character and economies of our communities around the world, now more than ever. As consumers continue to demand more, we’ll ensure we continue to offer touchpoints and solutions that help propel their businesses and fuel their growth powered by our innovation, data and technology.”
About Gannett:
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a subscription-led and digitally-focused media and marketing solutions company committed to empowering communities to thrive. With an unmatched reach at the national and local level, Gannett touches the lives of millions with our Pulitzer Prize-winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services. Our current portfolio of media assets includes USA TODAY, local media organizations in 45 states in the U.S., and Newsquest, a wholly owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom with more than 150 local news media brands. Gannett also owns digital marketing services companies branded LOCALiQ, and runs one of the largest media-owned events business in the U.S., USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures. To connect with us, visit www.gannett.com.
Regional communities in Australia have lost more than 125 News Corp printed newspapers as the local news goes digital-only.
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International Ladies Garment Workers Union
The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) was formed. At its founding convention, delegates represented roughly 2,000 members. The ILGWU grew to become one of the largest unions in the US, with 450,000 members at its peak in 1969. It merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE). – 1900
A federal child labor law that had been enacted in 1916 was declared unconstitutional. A new version was enacted on February 24, 1919, but was also later declared unconstitutional. It was not until the 1930s that child labor provisions were enacted as part of sweeping labor law reforms, through the exploitation of children continues to be a problem in the United States today. – 1918
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Printers in Philadelphia began what was to be a successful strike to protest a reduction in their wages from 45 shillings to 35 shillings a week. According to Henry Rosemont, the International Typographical Union’s unofficial historian, “these were the first American workers who deliberately voted to stand out for a specific wage and to provide mutual assistance in maintaining it.” – 1786
The Western Federation of Miners (WFM), which organized the 1907 Mesabi Range Strike, was uninterested in organizing miners in 1916. This left a vacuum that the much more radical IWW gladly filled. The Wobblies sent many of their top organizers to help and succeeded in recruiting many of the people who served as strikebreakers in 1907 to join the current strike. Carlos Tresca, an IWW leader, was arrested for murder in conjunction with the strike but was released without trial. Tresca went on to oppose Mussolini and the fascists, as well as the Stalinists in the USSR. He was assassinated in 1943. The Mesabi Strike was suppressed violently by police and vigilantes, with numerous strikers being jailed. The struggle was a precursor to the infamous labor deportations in Bisbee, Arizona in July 1917, in which 1,300 Wobblies, their supporters, and even innocent bystanders, were rounded up, forced into cattle cars, and dumped in the desert after 16 hours without food or water. – 1916
By Bron Maher
Forbes has formally ended its plan to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
The business news publisher attributed the move to the bad fortunes of the SPAC market, hinting the deal may not have done credit to Forbes’ underlying value. The company may now explore bids from private buyers.
Source: Press Gazette
Deal size: $630m
Country: US
Status: Official
1968 : Andy Warhol the American artist and a major driving force in the movement known as Pop art is shot and wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas who founded the "group" called S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting up Men).
1928 : Captain Arrachart and Major Rignot are forced to stop during their flight in Constantinople. They were on their way to India while trying to set a long distance record. Bad weather was stated as the reason for their early landing.
1932 : The Broadway musical "The Band Wagon" opened in New York City. The comedic musical film about an aging star that tries to revive his career in a Broadway production. The film ranked #17 in the American Film Institutes list of best musicals in 2006.
1937 : The former King of England King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland marries Wallis Warfield Simpson, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne in December 1936.
1940 : Germans bombed Paris killing mostly civilians, including school children as part of it's reign of terror to keep the French under control.
1943 : The Russian army takes down 162 of 500 Nazi planes in one of the biggest air battles of World War II. The German attack lasted nearly 10 hours over Kursk.
1959 : A riot takes place in one of the country's largest cities, Guayaquil, with a population of 275,000. The government blamed the riot on Communist influences. President Ponce instated martial law throughout the country earlier, while the Communist Party challenged the President's decree.
1961 : Clarence Gideon is arrested and charged with breaking into a poolroom in Florida. His case managed to change one the chief principles of American criminal justice. In Gideon v. Wainwright, in the Supreme Court it was ruled that a fair trial "cannot be realized if the poor man charged with [the] crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." Due to Clarence Gideon's perseverance, every criminal suspect is entitled to representation by a lawyer.
1962 : An Air France Boeing 707 crashes on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris, killing 130 people on board.
1963 : Pope John XXIII the 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church died at age 81 less than 5 years after becoming Pope.
1965 : Following in the wake of Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov, who was the first man ever to walk in space, Major Edward H. White II becomes the first American astronaut to walk in space during the flight of Gemini 4.
1966 : The Gemini 9 spacecraft is set to take off at 7:30 am. The crew of astronauts were scheduled for a 3 day journey in space.
1969 : While on NATO exercises in the South China Sea just off the coast of Vietnam the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices the smaller US destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half killing 74 of the destroyers crew.
1972 : A Protestant march against the creation of "no-go" areas in Londonderry ends in a bloody battle between marchers and soldiers on the Craigavon Bridge.
1989 : Ayatollah Khomeini who had led the 1979 revolution and overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Persia and became the country's Supreme Leader of the new Islamic Republic of Iran dies.
1989 : Following student unrest spreading to the rest of the population China starts the use of troops to quell protesters which is not successful the first time in Tiananmen square.
1989 : A natural gas pipeline leaks gas close to a railroad track in the Ural Mountains and as two trains pass the build up of gas an explosion occurs creating a massive fireball which engulfs the trains killing over 500 of the passengers.
1998 : A high speed train travelling in excess of 125 MPH comes off the rails in Eschede, 35 miles (50km) north of Hanover leaving at least 100 people dead and many more injured.
1999 : India and Pakistan are once again in conflict over the area of Kashmir with reports of hand-to-hand fighting and ground and air strikes by Indian forces on Pakistan backed guerrillas in areas close to the LOC (Line of Control) in Kashmir province which is separated into a Pakistan side and an India Side, the LOC was agreed in 1949 following a ceasefire between the two countries.
2004 : Following the terrorist attacks on an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia the price of oil has peaked to $42.45 a barrel, members of OPEC, the oil producing cartel, are meeting in Beirut today to agree to increase oil production in an attempt to stabilize the price.
2007 : Gay rights groups protested in the Latvian capital of Riga by holding the capital's second gay pride parade, despite discouragement and anger from conservatives in the country. Groups had attempted a gathering in 2006, but many angry protesters had harassed them and Latvian police were accused of ignoring the attacks at the time. This time the police provided a heavy presence at the event, outnumbering both the gay rights activists and the anti-gay protesters.
2008 : Over four hundred children in Texas who had been taken from a polygamist sect began returning to their families after a court ruled the officials who had conducted the raid on the ranch did not provide sufficient evidence that the children were in immediate danger. The court also placed restrictions on the return of the children, mandating that the parents take parenting classes and comply with all possible chide abuse investigations.
2008 : Following a lower market share of the US car market and sales down by an additional 25%, General Motors has announced it is closing four truck and sports utility vehicle (SUV) plants in the US, Canada and Mexico.
2009 : New Hampshire became the sixth state in the United States to make gay marriage legal. The governor, John Lynch, signed the legislation allowing same-sex marriage surrounded by supporters.
2011 : Controversial doctor, Jack Kevorkian, died at the age of eighty-three. Kevorkian was known as "Doctor Death" and had spent eight years in prison for aiding in assisted suicides of one hundred and thirty people. He was released from prison in 2007 and a movie about him and his life was made in 2010. Kevorkian advocated assisted suicide for terminally ill patients and his trial and conviction of murder for assisting a suicide sparked much debate on the subject.
2012 : Colombian drug lord Diego Rastrojo was arrested by police in Venezuela. Authorities have stated that he became the leader of the cartel in May and that they would hand him over to Colombian authorities.
2013 : The United States' oldest Senator, Frank Lautenberg, died at the age of eighty-nine after suffering from complications of pneumonia. Lautenberg had served over three decades during five different terms.
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By William Turvill
Forbes Media looks set to call off its deal to enter the public market. The New York Times reports that the business news company could confirm the cancellation of its plan this week.
Forbes announced last August that it intended to go public through a merger with Magnum Opus, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal was expected to value the media firm at around $630m.
Buzzfeed completed a similar deal last December and has struggled on the stock market this year.
Source: The New York Times
Deal size: $630m
Country: US
Status: Repo
1923 : Both Great Britain and the United States are demanding back the loans made to France borrowed during the First World War but the french answer is both Britain and America are much richer nations and as the war was a world war they should not have to pay the money back, negotiations are continuing at diplomatic levels.
1933 : The aviator, Roger Williams, announces his plans to fly a round-trip flight across the Atlantic ocean. His flight plans start from New York and include stops in Rome, Greece, and Ireland. He plans to end in Chicago. It was set to start his flight on July 24th in a Bellanca plane.
1938 : Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.
1967 : One of the most iconic LP's from the 1960s Music is released by The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
1968 : The famous blind and deaf author Helen Keller who become a world-famous speaker, Political Activist and author, Helen Keller, dies.
1935 : Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England who started driving on or after April 1st 1934, A voluntary test was introduced by the Road Traffic Act in 1934 and the first person in Britain to take the test and pass his driving test is Mr R.E.L.BEERE. The test took place on the 16th March 1935. The son of Mr R.E.L.BEERE. still has the certificate 00001 signed in behalf of the (then) Minister of Transport. All drivers buying a temporary driving license must now put ‘L’ plates on the car and take a driving test to get their full license.
1942 : A Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, is the first public newspaper to tell the world about the Nazi extermination camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in Chelmno.
1944 : The British Broadcasting Corp. aired the coded message from the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine to underground resistance fighters in France to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1946 : The British Broadcasting Corporation/BBC introduces the first TV Licence costing £2 for the British Public. This was in addition to a Radio Licence which cost about 10 shillings (50p). Current TV licence fee is £147.00.
1947 : A tornado kills an estimated 30 people and leaves over 500 people homeless in Arkansas. Many rural communities were hit by the tornado and destroyed. The storm's path was an estimated 20 miles long, and could have been up to 10 miles wide.
1958 : Following a long political crisis over the revolt in Algeria, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to head a new emergency government as a virtual dictator for a 6 month period to bring the country back together.
1965 : In one of the worst mining disasters in modern times an explosion kills 236 workers at the Yamano coal mine near Fukuoka, Japan.
1970 : The former leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khruschev , was hospitalized with a burst blood vessel. Although the condition was not life threateningly dangerous, the former Premier was sent to the Kremlin hospital where he was to be kept indoors for a few weeks.
1979 : Rhodesia ends nearly 100 years of white minority rule and changes it's name to Zimbabwe.
1980 : The first 24-hour news television station – CNN is launched in Atlanta, Georgia.
1985 : 500 Hippy travelers clash with police on their way to the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in Wiltshire for an illegal festival, the police set up a roadblock seven miles from Stonehenge. The day is known as "The Battle of the Beanfield" and was the first major test of an English Heritage ban on midsummer festivals at Stonehenge.
1985 : The United States and the Soviet Union faced a stalemate when discussing arms control . Neither side seemed willing to compromise but both sides opened up the possibility for discussion.
1990 : In a historic meeting between President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev they sign a historic agreement to end production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of reserves of chemical weapons.
1993 : Serb forces shell a football match in Bosnia killing 11 including 4 children who were watching the football match.
2001 : The king, queen and seven other members of the royal family in Nepal are shot dead after the heir to the throne Crown Prince Dipendra went on a rampage with a gun before turning it on himself.
2005 : The police in Zimbabwe continue the crackdown on shantytowns that have been built in the capital, Harare, destroying thousands of shanty's and arresting more than 22,000 people. The police are destroying these Shanty Towns in an attempt to clean up crime in the cities and forcing the people back to the rural areas of the country.
2005 : Sweden shut down the Barseback 2 nuclear reactor as it continued to phase out using nuclear energy. The country had voted to end its nuclear energy program in 1980 and had been working on phasing out the reactors for twenty five years. However concerns over alternative energy options had some Swedes reconsidering nuclear energy, as well as replacing nuclear energy with more renewable sources like wind and solar power.
2006 : A report on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers admitted that faulty design specifications, incomplete sections and substandard construction of levee segments, contributed up to 2/3rd's of damage done to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
2007 : Doctor Jack Kervorkian was released from prison in the state of Michigan after serving eight years. Kervorkian had been convicted of murder for helping terminally ill patients die and became known as Doctor Death. Kervorkian, a proponent of euthanasia vowed he would continue to fight for the right of assisted suicide but would do so by legal means.
2010 : Entertainment Weekly announced that Homer Simpson was to be named the best television and film character of the past twenty years. The cartoon character was best known for his love of eating and oafish antics. The Simpsons character beat out Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who came in as second and third on the magazine's list.
2012 : After the jury could not decide on five of the six charges former Presidential candidate John Edwards faced, the judge declared it a mistrial. The jury only found him not guilty of one of the six charges he faced for misuse of campaign funds. The former candidate was accused of using donor funds to cover up his mistress's pregnancy during his 2008 presidential run.
2013 :Two drone strikes killed seven suspected al-Qaeda militants in Southern Yemen. The suspected militants had been travelling in two separate vehicles.
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