I've listed the basic facts behind a current news topic
below. Your job is to come up with as many story ideas as possible based
on these facts. They can be standalone stories, sidebar stories,
follow-up stories, features based on the facts, or any other type of story.
At the beginning of this semester, we discussed how one of a
journalist's best traits is curiosity. Use the facts presented here as a
jumping-off point for exploring other possibilities. What unanswered questions
or related issues lead to possible story ideas from these facts?
Here are the facts:
- According to a study by the National Insurance
Crime Bureau, more than 1 million cars and other personal
vehicles were stolen in America in
2023.
- This is up more than 41 percent from the 721,000
vehicles stolen five years ago, in 2019.
- California had the highest number of vehicles
stolen among all states, with more than 208,000.
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Take the next 10 minutes or so to put together a list of
possible story ideas based on these facts, and email them to me. We will
reconvene to discuss ideas from the group after you send them.