Sample profile

Happy snow day! If you're looking for something to read, you might find this recent New York Times Magazine profile of  Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly interesting and a good model for your own profile. It has been described as a "puff piece," which means it is pretty flattering, on the whole.  

It's a good one for journalism class, because it has some good information about the direction that mainstream TV news is taking today -- toward less reporting about government and politics, a trend that is contributing to the rise of news reporting with an ideological -- "conservative" or "liberal," for example -- perspective. 

Note the delayed/anecdote lead, which shows us Kelly in action. It gives readers who don't know who Kelly is an understanding of her personality.  In the nutgraph, the author tells us what the angle of this profile is, explaining what a "Megyn moment" is and how her style of news reporting is making her a rising star in TV news. See, too, how the author gives us a good sampling of personal, background information later in the story.