Sometimes the best story ideas are hiding in your For You page. This quick activity will help you take something trending and turn it into a potential article idea. It's all about flexing your journalistic brain in real time and finding your unique take. Try This:

Scroll your TikTok feed (or think back to a video you saw recently). Pick one trend, topic, or video that caught your attention. Ask yourself the following:

What’s the trend? Describe it in a sentence or two. Is it a viral challenge?...