News Reporting & Writing Exam Answers New Update
inverted pyramid - Answers - - Most basic story form for print, broadcast and online news as well as news releases
- Most important facts first, followed by supporting points in descending order of importance
- Starts with a summary lead that an...
News Reporting & Writing Exam
Answers New Update
inverted pyramid - Answers -✔✔ - Most basic story form for print, broadcast and online
news as well as news releases
- Most important facts first, followed by supporting points in descending order of
importance
- Starts with a summary lead that answers the 5 Ws and H
- Advantage: readers get crucial information quickly
- Disadvantage: readers may not go past the crucial information
- Use the news values we discussed in chapter 1 to determine what should come first in
an inverted pyramid story
- Constituents of an inverted pyramid story: headline, summary lead, follow-up graph or
backup (made up of quotes or facts), supporting facts, ending
Wall Street Journal formula - Answers -✔✔ - Often starts with a soft lead that starts
from the specific to the general
- Focuses on a person, scene, event
- The lead is either anecdotal, narrative, or descriptive
- Usually has a full-circle ending
- Useful for stories about trends, major issues, features, news sidebars, and news
events that lend themselves to a feature approach
- The technique dates back to the 1950s
- Structure: Soft lead, nut graph, backup for lead and nut graph, supporting
points/facts/anecdotes, explanations/points of view, circle kicker
hour-glass structure - Answers -✔✔ - Usually starts like an inverted pyramid
- Then contains a chronological storytelling for a part or for the rest of the story
- Works for broadcast news
- Useful in crime or disaster stories
- Use an overview attribution such as: "police gave the following account," "witnesses
described the accident this way," etc.
- Merits: adds drama
- Demerits: can be repetitive and long
- Structure: Summary lead, follow-up graph, overview attribution, and chronological
storytelling
narrative technique - Answers -✔✔ - A form of form of dramatic storytelling that
reconstructs events as though the reader were witnessing them
- Requires thorough reporting and descriptive detail
Uses a lot of dialogue
- Written more like a novel or a play than like a hard-news story
- Here the 5 W's have a different meaning
Who—the character(s)
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