ALEXANDRIA Good Evening, Drifters
In journalism we have a thing called the nut graf. I always try to have one in every story. It s the so what paragraph of your story.
Here s one I wrote about a request for information about a sub-launched drone for aerial surveillance: The Navy has been interested in sub-launched drones for some time and has been testing prototypes, but the RFI shows the service is getting serious about the idea as it adds longer-range torpedoes and anti-ship cruise missiles to the arsenal of its attack submarines.
I mean, it s not Shakespeare, and it s not even a particularly good nut graf, but it gives the reader high up in the story what the takeaway should be.