COM 110 Chapter 3: "Newswriting Basics"
8 Feb 2017
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Assembling your stories with the best facts you can find. The facts tell the story and let readers form their own opinions. In journalism, usually maximum facts with minimum opinion. Emotions can be conveyed, but there is a grey area in how they can be. Who: provides an outlet for asking questions about strangers focus on personality, legacy. What: the stuff the news is about (events, ideas, projects, problems) Monitor and explain stuff that matters most to readers. When: when events happened, when they will happen, how long they"ll last. Where: the closer the event, the more relevant it will be to readers. Potential need to provide visuals with broader topics. Why: reporting the news, then explaining it. Getting right to the point in a story. The five w"s incorporated in the opening grafs. Chronologically: things are resolved at the end. Inverted pyramid: helps readers scan news quickly and efficiently (breaking news)
