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Well, I thought it was interesting...
Checking Yahoo mail just now, I noticed that the top-headlines area currently had two different links to the Moscow roof collapse story, one from AP and one from Reuters. Since most news sources in the US use AP, you'll almost invariably get only one version of a story no matter how many different papers or online sources you check -- same quotes, same content, maybe a little repackaging or a different opening graf* (paragraph) to set you apart a tad bit from your competitors, but that's about it. So it's interesting to read two completely unrelated news stories on the same topic side by side.
The AP one:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_re_eu/russia_market_collapse
And the Reuters one:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060223/ts_nm/russia_market_dc
The basic story is just the same, but it's interesting to contrast how two different journalists approached it: one story opens up with a basic "who what where when" approach, while the other opens with a human-interest angle, and so forth.
*I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. The traditional journalistic and typesetter convention is to deliberately misspell common layout words, when talking about journalist copy, in order to make sure that generic words from the layout don't get accidentally inserted into the final copy. So paragraph is "graf", headline is "hed", etc. This has been your typesetting lesson for today.
The AP one:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_re_eu/russia_market_collapse
And the Reuters one:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060223/ts_nm/russia_market_dc
The basic story is just the same, but it's interesting to contrast how two different journalists approached it: one story opens up with a basic "who what where when" approach, while the other opens with a human-interest angle, and so forth.
*I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. The traditional journalistic and typesetter convention is to deliberately misspell common layout words, when talking about journalist copy, in order to make sure that generic words from the layout don't get accidentally inserted into the final copy. So paragraph is "graf", headline is "hed", etc. This has been your typesetting lesson for today.