Phenomenon stories look in detail at a particular event, which may be new or a longstanding tradition or a social fad. It could be a parade, an election, the body-piercing fad, a musical trend, the changing moral values of a society, life in a tattoo shop, and many other things. As with stories about places, phenomenon stories usually are interesting to your readers primarily because of the people caught up in whatever you are covering. Your Computer Projects Your computer projects will involve the use of spreadsheets, database managers, World Wide Web browser software, and electronic mail. Let's look at each in turn.
Spreadsheets are tools for tabulating and analyzing numerical data.
Spreadsheets are the computer equivalent of the traditional accounting ledger. But their computational power allows journalists to use them to analyze budgets, census data, government reports and a host of other material. They display data in rows and columns. You can perform a great variety of mathematical and statistical functions with your data and prepare the data for presentation in tables, fact boxes and graphs. Database managers or database programs are used for gathering a combination of textual and numerical information, filing it, retrieving it, manipulating it, displaying it and printing it.