"Journalists often write informational articles that have story elements and vice versa. Moreover, they have some tricks of the trade that help them do this. The first is the anecdote, a word often confused with 'antidote'-- unless we say that the anecdote is an antidote to the poison of dull writing."
According to Chapter 10 of ABNW, an anecdote is a tiny story within a story, "a short account of some interesting or humorous incident." What I understood from this section was that it was reiterating the fact that there are two different types of journalists. The ones who follow the assignments and those who make the story their own. If you include an anecdote within the assignment you are making the story your own. So for anyone out there that says Journalism is not creative-check it out! Anecdote's within a story luminates style and puts the dull articles to sleep! Anecdotes are the gold coins you are in search of while interviewing...that extra something special that will make your story shine.
An example would probably be any background or history reporters/we found while interviewing the students at the Safe Streets, Safer Students meeting. But I guess there is a catch-you have to be careful what information you are writing and how you publish it, because you may be giving information that will alter the hearings.
