News Reporting and Writing: Examples of Hard-News and Impact Leads

Hard-news Leads
The following leads are from single stories on hard-news and soft-news.
1 According to a survey report from child abuse prevention center in Baltimore, 3 to 4 children under the age of five are likely to die of child neglect, which indicated that the cases rose to 2.7 million this year.
2 Anti-abortion supporters faced off with pro-abortion demonstrators at Times Square rally, during which an anti-abortion doctor performed a live 4D ultrasound showing a fetus in the womb, while New York City’s Comptroller Scott Stringer told reporters that the demonstrations would not stop them from fighting for women's rights to abortion.
3 A Chinese food driver from Great wall restaurant has been robbed of Chinese food at gunpoint on his way to deliver it to an apartment complex at 718 S.W Western Ave.
4 A lighting of cigarette on a sofa has led to Kathy Mahony losing her house and property worth $45,000 in damage in addition to suffering minor burns on her hands and feet.
5 Murder cases have been on the rise at 53 percent in Florida as the number of rapes and robberies decreases significantly, as per the state Bureau of Investigation.