MMC 2100 STORY WORKSHEET

STORIES MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE STORY WORKSHEET IN ORDER TO BE ACCEPTED FOR
CREDIT. Email and text submitted in the Blackboard submission box WILL NOT be accepted.

Please complete the following worksheet and insert a copy of your story and notes into the appropriate section
listed below. The story should meet the following criteria (TO BE COMPLETED BY INSTRUCTOR):
PTS COMMENTS
5
Lead: summarizes story & clear purpose
5
Body/ Journalistic Style: concise, fair & accurate
5
Sources: supporting evidence, valid & min. 2 primary
5
Quotes: proper attribution, punctuation & min. 2 quotes utilized
5
AP Style/Grammar: grammar, spelling, punctuation
25
**Research & News Value: see below
TOTAL
EXTRA CREDIT: Photo with caption (must include photo credit and detailed

50
10

description to receive points)

INSTRUCTOR Grading Comments:

Underline indicates grammar errors
Yellow highlight indicates AP style errors
Strikethrough indicates wordy structure/unnecessary words
--COMMENTS WILL BE INSERTED TO EXPLAIN OTHER ISSUES--

STORY
Business Office Manager Introduces Lexington Park Assisted Living
Darius Jones, Leesburg Campus, Online
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Lexington Park Assisted Living and Memory Care, located at 930 CR 466 in Lady Lake, will be celebrating
its fourth anniversary on Friday, November 4, 2014. Mrs. Debbi Jones, the Business Office Coordinator, has been
with the company since before the building opened. Mrs. Jones told me she started as the Administrative
Assistant for Lexington Park in July of 2010, working out of the sales trailer along with the Marketing Director,
Bonnie Reidy. She was promoted to Business Office Coordinator approximately one and a half years ago; taking
on the responsibility of personnel files along with the resident files and staff payroll along with numerous other
duties. Previously, she had worked for a physical therapy company, then another assisted living and memory care
community. When the opportunity presented itself to join Lexington Park starting from the ground up, it was a
challenge Debbi could not pass up.
Mrs. Jones has seen many staff changes in the four years she has worked in the office including changes
in the Executive Director position. The current director, Vincent Zaun, has been with Lexington Park since
November of 2013. Lexington Park has a total of eighty-nine apartments for their residents; twenty of them located
in the Memory Care wing of the building. In talking with Mrs. Jones about her position, she told me the most
important part of her job is the constant contact with the residents and their families. You come to form very
close relationships with the residents, getting to know them very well. Many of them have very interesting
backgrounds.
Lexington Park opened its doors on November 4, 2010 with twelve residents moving in the first day. It now
has a census of eighty-four. Of course the census moves up and down, but that is the nature of assisted living.
Lexington Park is becoming very well known in The Villages area. Mrs. Jones told me, Lexington Park has been
able to develop and keep a very positive reputation in the community. With a great management team and a
positive and qualified staff, the whole team strives daily to meet the needs not only of their residents, but also that
of the community.

*NEWS VALUE
STORIES SHOULD HAVE SIGNFICANT NEWS VALUE. Please indicate which of the news value characteristics are
present in your story with a BRIEF description of how they are demonstrated. Points are accessed on overall
newsworthiness of story as well as completion of the chart below.
Timeliness
Proximity
Prominence
Impact
Conflict
Novelty

November 4,
2014

Lady Lake, FL Well known

in the
community

**RESEARCH NOTES
What are the 5-Ws of story? If aspect was omitted please explain WHY.
WHO Debbi Jones, Business Office Coordinator
WHAT Lexington Park 4th Anniversary
WHEN November 4, 2014
WHERE Lady Lake, FL
WHY Celebrating four years of being in business
1. Primary Source & Title:
Type of Interview face-to-face
Justification - Mrs. Jones has worked for Lexington Park since before it opened.

[Insert research questions, responses and notes here]

2. Primary Source & Title:
Type of Interview (face-to-face, phone, email, etc.) & Why?
Justification (Why is this source of information VALID for this story?)

[Insert research questions, responses and notes here]

NOTE:

Please include a copy of other research notes with proper source attribution (specifically for all
information and quotes included in story).

[Insert OTHER research notes here]