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• Journalism


  Gathering and presenting news stories
• Journalist


  • A person who works in journalism to report the news
  • Involved in selecting and presentation of what he/she considers to be noteworthy
  • Meets the standard of honesty in reporting
• Journalistic writing


  A style of writing used to report news stories in forms of newspapers, television broadcasts, radio and on the internet
• Characteristics of Journalistic Writing

  • Simplicity and brevity - writers use short sentences as much as possible in the active voice
  • Precision - writers use precise and simple words
  • Objectivity and factual - writers refrain from having their own opinion
  • Fairness and balance - both sides of the story are presented and given equal coverage
  • Inverted Pyramid - information is written from the most important to the least important
• Inverted Pyramid


  1. The Lead (who, what, where, when, how)

  2. Body (Additional information)

  3. The Tail (Background information)
• Types of Journalistic Writing

  • News Report - report on current events informing the readers with facts and detailed information answering WH- questions
  • Opinion article - reflects the author's opinion about an issue or event
  • Feature article - report about a certain topic, issue, person or event with more in-depth details
  • Sports article - report matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions
• Feature article


  • Human interest
  • Interviews
  • Personality sketch