The Digital Bullpen news site in Tampa
Order ID 8677133386 Subject Journalism Topic NEWs Type Discussion Board Post Writer level College Style APA Sources / references 1 Language English(U.S.) Description / paper instructions Write a hypothetical storyJOU 2100: News Skills Exercise 1 – News Story 1 Prompt
You are a reporter working for The Digital Bullpen news site in Tampa. Your story is going to be published at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17.
We are not going to write the full story, so don’t. “CQ” means the information is correct.
To Do:
-Identify Who, What, Where, When, Why, How from the information below.
-Write a summary lede focusing on the most important information.
-Draw a line through any of the statements you WOULD NOT USE in a news story. Be able to justify.
-Some of the information is not written in AP Style. Correct it.
Facts
- Thursday, Jan. 17, was Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, observed by people all over the United States, including people in Hillsborough County as well as people nationwide.
- No one knows how many people participated nationally or locally, but from accounts you received at least several hundred local parents took the opportunity to take their children to work with them.
- The purpose of the occasion local sponsors and promoters say was to expose children to a variety of career opportunities.
- One of the people who participated with his 16 year old daughter was Robert D. Shaw, who is 53 years old and lives at 3536 Greenglen Circle in Palm Harbor.
- Shaw is the director of research at Collins Industries (cq), which specializes in making and selling health care products and medical equipment.
- Shaw and his daughter Jennifer (cq) arrived for work at 8 a.m., Shaw’s usual starting time.
- Jennifer observed her dad at work much of the morning, talked to some co-workers, and ate lunch with her dad in the company cafeteria.
- “Its better than school lunches,” Jennifer said.
- At 2 p.m., Robert was called in to talk to the director of personnel, who told him he was being fired.
- Marilyn Quentin (cq), the personnel director, told him that, because of financial problems, the company was eliminating a number of middle managers in the company and his position was one that was being eliminated, that the company no longer needed his services.
- A total of 8 mid-level managers were being let go effective immediately as a necessary cost cutting measure.
- The company has 225 employees (cq).
- Shaw was then escorted back to his office by security officers, given an hour to pack his office, then escorted from the building with his daughter, then in tears.
- Shaw had worked for the company since graduating from college 32 years ago.
- He started as a research assistant. He got four promotions during that period of time and eventually was appointed director of research, managing a staff of fourteen researchers and their assistants.
- You called the President of the company five times but she has not returned your call.
- “Its not me I worry about,” Shaw told you. “It’s my daughter. It’s not right. They shouldn’t have fired me yesterday when I had my daughter there. I can’t believe they couldn’t have waited one damn day. It was too traumatic for Jennifer, seeing me treated like that, and I think we’ll have to get help for her, professional help. It was just so unbelievable, so cruel, that they would do that with my daughter there.”
- All company employees had been sent by the company’s Office of Human Resources an email reminder that they were encouraged to bring their daughters to work with them for the day.
- The company will give Shaw three months’ severance pay and help finding a new job.
- “The timing of the dismissal of Mr. Shaw was regrettable,” said Quentin.
- The company has been laying off employees and restructuring itself after disclosing unexpected and mounting financial losses last Summer in the wake of an economic downturn that hit the healthcare industry.
- Shaw’s wife Wanda (cq) told you that she thinks the family should sue the company for the way the dismissal was handled.
- Shaw did not comment about the possibility of suing.