How I am adapting to writing the news

So far I’ve had to work at a couple aspects of my writing style while transitioning to news writing, but I enjoy that it forces the writer to be succinct.  I have had to edit my articles a lot through deleting miscellaneous words that aren’t necessary such as “that” and changing phrases like “she went on to say,” to just “she said.”  However, I think this editing process that is integral to news writing is helping me to become more economical with my words and making me a better writer in the process.  Also, I’ve enjoyed trying out different kinds of leads and I especially like writing leads that include word play.  The stories I have written haven’t been especially urgent news stories, so I have tended to include the six W questions in the “nutgraf,” as it calls it in our textbook.  Something that has been hard for me is wrapping up my stories because I tend to try to make a conclusion like in a literary paper, but in the future I am going to try to get myself to stop the article in the most succinct way possible.