President Obama Wins Nobel Prize

Student Assignment: Julien

Today President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Watch the the Nobel Committee announce that it has awarded its annual award to the US president.

Now, write a news story at least 10 sentences long:

• Tell readers about the award announcement
• Why did the committee give the award to President Obama (this New York Times will help you answer this; if you use information from the article, remember to source it)
• Link to the announcement
• Explain what the prize is (this Wikipedia page will help answer this; remember to source any information from it).

For your assignment, answer the five W's in doing this.

• Who
  
• What
  
• When
  
• Where
  
• Why
  

Include a link to the announcement and a related photo. Remember to include all source citations.

Photo credit: Wikipedia