When you begin your career as a news reporter, it is likely that your first assignments will be of a general nature: accidents, press conferences, council meetings.
When dealing with such stories you should try to cover all the angles that you can. Don’t just deal with the immediate story; everybody else will be dealing with that angle. To succeed as a reporter you need to dig a little deeper, as in the earlier court example in which a relative was interviewed.
One type of story that you may be asked to cover as a general reporter is an accident. Let us say you have been sent to the scene of a “small” rail crash in the South-east of England on a line that has been newly privatised.
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