What have I learned so far?

So far, i think the most important thing we've learned is how journalists go about producing an article. I hope to continue to learn about more news elements as well. We have learned about timeliness, prominence, proximity, consequence and human interest and how they plug in to a news article to make it worthy as news. It is interesting how those elements can affect a story and why. A question i have is what kind of importance vocabulary plays in an article, because it has to be able to read by a number of different people and maybe the writer has to be cautious about word selection. I also wonder what kind of effect a writers personal opinion can have on the story they write.