The "One Thing" Week 7- Lead The Way

I learned the importance of a lead in a Newspaper Practicum class that I took last year. I learned that a strong lead is important to grab the reader's attention, if they're not interested in what the lead is telling them, chances are slim to none that they will continue to read the article. Although I already learned how important a lead is, the article containing the six rules for writing news leads was a nice refresher, and made writing a lead almost as easy as following a check list.
Something new I learned was while reading "The Lexicon of Leads" article we were given. I never realized that leads could be categorized in this way, and that depending on the content of the story or article, the lead should be written differently. Before reading this article, the only kind of lead that I knew how to write was a summary lead, but now I feel more educated on how to make a lead more fitting to the story.