Title: What is a Story Angle?
Headings: What Is a Story Angle?
What Is a Story Angle?
Whether local or national, sniff out the good story angle
Types of Story Angles
Local or National
Follow-Up Stories
Good News Judgment

Content: The impacts of legislation can range from financial to environmental, short term and long term. While each one of these could be included in one main story, each one also lends itself to a separate and interesting story and depending on the reach of the legislation at hand, each constitutes an angle of its own. Using the inverted-pyramid structure basic to American-style journalism, in which the most important, urgent information is at the top, the reporter threads that angle through the story to tell the reader why it matters to her or to him. Local or National
Both news and feature stories can also have angles based on geography and range of readership or viewership, depending on your location and the type of outlet you work for. Examples include the national angle and the local angle: The national angle is taken by national media for major stories, trend pieces, and stories about issues that affect the country as a whole: those are the kinds of stories that fill the front pages of major metropolitan dailies. An example would be the passage of President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its effect on Americans of different socioeconomic groups on a national scale. Another might be a weather event that strikes a large swath of the country and affects millions of people. The local angle comes when a reporter localizes those stories and focuses on the local or regional impact of those events, making them immediately relevant to the local readers.