Media, Information and Technoculture 2154F/G Lecture 1: Lecture 1- September 12
19 Sep 2016
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Your lead or first sentence is usually the most important. With news stories you tend to start with the most important items and then work your way to the least important. Paragraphs are kept short- one to three sentences at most. There are always exceptions, e. g. , the new yorker or the atlantic (magazines) There is no particular way to structure it, it is just about the look because it should be easy to read. Accuracy: don"t misspell names, double check facts and be grammatically correct. What factors should you consider when you think about what is newsworthy: impact. Could be natural disasters, people getting laid off, etc. Sometimes the impact is on a group of people, not everyone is affected but a certain group is making it newsworthy. On a more human level, impact can be if someone dies, there is an accident, or people are injured.
