Special Leads

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/21/btsc.iran.amanpour/index.html

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- As I sat down recently with a senior Iranian government official, he urgently waved a column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in my face, one about how the United States and Iran need to engage each other.

I think this is a narrative lead because it starts off telling the story of how an interview went between a reporter and an Iranian government official. It continues narrating a story for the next several paragraphs, and eventually has a nut graph because it describes the issue at hand. I think it is written well, except that it is a topic I am not very interested in, so i found it boring and difficult to understand what the story is actually about. I think this type of article should not delay the issue and get right to the point.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2889317&page=1


DREXEL HILL, Pa., Feb. 20, 2007 — In the nurse's office at Hillcrest Elementary School in this Philadelphia suburb, nurse Kim Glielmi spends much of her day dealing not with cuts and bruises, but pounds and inches. On the day we visited, the entire kindergarten class was lined up for its mandatory march to the scales.

This is a narrative lead because it tells a story in the fest few paragraphs, as can be seen in the lead. It does not start off telling the reader what the news story actually is or where the news value is. However, I was interested enough to continue reading and I think it did a good job of keeping me reading more into the article.