Week 10

I found an article with a great beginning that kept me wanting to read the article even though the subject was about something I wasn't entirely interested in. The story was from NPR about how American Airlines accidentally gave too many pilots days off during the holidays. Here's the lead -

I'm not one who is usually interested in stories about business, but this one caught my eye when I read the first line. I'm not even traveling this holiday season, but I still feel like the story is important to me. It's interesting to me just how one sentence can make a reader want to read an article they wouldn't regularly read about.

This lead is also great because it gives all of the pertinent information within one sentence without overloading the reader. If the sentence didn't pull me in to read the rest of the story, I could be just fine reading the first line and knowing the gist of the story. I know most people don't read articles all the way to the end, and I assume journalists know that, too. This journalist succeeded in getting the story across in only 26 words.