Kendal Moore-Journalistic writing

I have faced many challenges learning to write journalistically up to this point in the semester. Throughout my high school career I was drilled to write using MLA format when writing academically. This is extremely different from AP Style. The AP Style Book tells you exactly how to present or use each word and it's an awesome tool used during the writing process. One of the biggest challenge for me was learning the different journalistic styles such as news stories. It is strange for me to include all the information needed in the first paragraph such as who, what, when, where, why, and how. It was also difficult to not include a conclusion. In my beginning stages of writing news stories I felt as if I was leaving a piece of writing incomplete. Although I am learning new styles of writing, I am comfortable knowing that these changes are only making me a well-rounded writer.