As a journalist, I know that true objectivity doesn't exist because choosing to cover one event over another, and even choosing who to interview can shape your story into one that is entirely different from a story where you'd interviewed different people.
This week, you should take a news story where you read it and thought, "oh, that's terrible," or "oh, that's really interesting," and talk about your reaction within the story.
Doing this will help you describe feelings and emotions in your stories and hitting them at the core. Sometimes writers get into traps where they don't explore the interesting and terrible sides of human emotions.
Here's an interesting story from my school's newspaper about a professor who sued the university on gender discrimination-- he's a man. I'll let you take it from there.
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