JOUR 001 Lecture 2: Journalism 101 (Writing for New Media) - Lec 2
27 Oct 2020
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Spell out one through nine; use numerals for 10 and above. Use numerals; abbreviate months except if five or fewer letters. Unfortunately, there usually are exceptions (such as times above and percentages) Collective nouns use singular verbs and pronouns. In active voice, the subject does the action (saban coaches the alabama football team) In passive voice, the action is performed upon the subject. No: dierks bentley will be at the amphitheater . His book fear: trump is in the white house was just released. Top few grafs follow inverted pyramid structure. Then a pivot sentence to change from pyramid to chronological structure (e. g. according to police, this is what happened. Then tell the story step by step as it happened. This works for certain stories told best with a chronology (e. g. sports, crimes, disasters) but you still want a summary lead. Uses a human example to explain a problem, issue, or trend.
