I n your observation exercise, you recognized that good newswriting requires knowing who the audience is . That means knowing your publication medium. News is timely. News usually impacts lots of people.
News often is proximate to readers of the news publication.
A fire on campus is newsworthy. A fire in Wyoming in itself is not. News often involves conflict. A student group staging a protest to call attention to landlord neglect of student housing is newsworthy. A group of students agreeing that they think their apartments are well cared for is not.