Article seven of my Navigator work was another Libya piece. I feel like my skills as a news journalist are improving greatly, and that I am developing a style. I decided to break the article into three parts. Each part had about 150-200 words devoted to each topic within the larger story.
The first part covered William Hague and the botched SAS/MI6 mission. This was standard stuff. And since William Hague had taken responsibility for it there was not really a whole lot of investigation or need for me to surmise.
The second talked about the military options available to the western powers. I was watching BBC news 24 in the background and took down a quote by President Obama regarding the situation, I added this to my piece.
Part three centred on a possible exit strategy offered to Gaddafi and members of his family. The United Nations website was a source for the statistical data used at the end of the piece, it mentioned more than 1,000 people have died and 200,000 have fled the country.
My pictures from this article were free images from wiki commons. This is where most of my images are coming from, unless I take them myself. It’s a good place to get them as they are copywrite free, and they have a disclaimer saying they are free to use. The downside is they are usually stock images and not as current as some others from AP or Reuters.
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