Writing a Human Interest Article Suppose you were a newspaper journalist in 1850. Your assignment is to write a short human-interest article. A human-interest article focuses on the
people involved in an event or situation. Your subject is people who were part of the gold
rush. For your article, "interview" one or more of the people described in the reading. Be sure to
give background information on the gold rush as well as "quotations from the people you
interview. This should be no longer than 10 sentences, but a minimum of 7 sentences. The story can be about anything.