On Wednesday November 30th Mrs. Westover’s IDM III class, and Mrs. LaHaie’s journalism class took a trip to ASU to view the schools tech and journalism classes. While there, we went to the channel twelve news building and a reporter of twelve news,taught us about what they do there. The thing he talked about that I found the most interesting was when he told us their writing techniques. They like their stories written with the best details possible while keeping the story short and precise. They do not like a lot of extra details (or fluff). He also said that when people read or watch the news they want to know the stories quickly, people will not want to listen to a lot of “fluff”. He said that it takes great skill to be able to write stories in an exciting way without putting your own opinion or “fluff” in it. I would like to be good at writing news stories and that’s why I found this interesting.