Print Leads to Broadcast Leads

This first hard news story was found on baltimoresun.com. It is titled "Pregnant Arundel woman found slain in Ore."

"An Anne Arundel County woman who had recently moved out west to have her first baby was found dead Friday in the Oregon home of a woman she might have met through Craigslist, police said. The baby also died."

Source:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-pregnant0607,0,7224215.story

If I were to rewrite this lead for broadcast, it would go like this:
"An Arundel County woman and her unborn child were killed on Friday in the home of an Oregan. Police said the victim and the accused may have met trhough Craigslist."

This next hard news story lead comes from The New York Times website, and the article is titled "Groundbreaking Set for New Jersey Transit Tunnel Under Hudson."

"New Jersey officials have been planning the next train tunnel under the Hudson River for so long that it is already on its third name. This month, work is scheduled to begin on the Mass Transit Tunnel — formerly known as the Trans-Hudson Express and, before that, Access to the Region’s Core — more than 15 years after it was conceived."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/nyregion/08tunnel.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

Rewritten as a broadcast lead, it should read as follows:

"After fifteen years of planning and three name changes, construction is finally underway for the Mass Transit Tunnel to run under the Hudson River."

This final hard news lead was also found on The New York Times's website, titled "More Bodies Recovered Near Site of Plane Crash."

"As searchers pulled 15 more bodies from the Atlantic on Sunday near the site of last weekend’s crash of an Air France plane, a mystery that riveted the world — what happened to a 200-ton jetliner — became a fight against time and currents to salvage rapidly disappearing evidence."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/world/americas/08plane.html?hp

There are two important facts in this lead. One is that there were 15 more bodies found, and that rescue crews are working against the clock to uncover evidence that would show what happened to the plane. To rewrite this lead as a more conversational broadcast lead, it would read like this:

"After 15 more bodies were found in the Atlantic on Sunday, rescuers are now working against the clock to uncover dissapearing evidence that would give clues as to why the 200-ton plane went down."