Charles McDonald
3 min readDec 19, 2021
Photo credit: Edward Howell Unsplash
Photo Credit: Edward Howell, Unsplash

How a 3-piece chicken box made news history

Use brief lead sentences to grip readers

“Gary Robinson died hungry.”

Edna Buchanan, the Pulitzer Prize winning Miami Herald crime writer wrote brilliant lead sentences.

Her brief intro transformed otherwise routine police blotter notes into journalism masterpieces.

Charles McDonald

Award winning journalist, dog rescuer, husband, dad. If we met at Woodstock, I apologize for memory lapses.