Lesson 3: News writing fundamental

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  • News Values

    Journalists commonly use six values to determine hownewsworthy a story or elements of a story are.
  • six news values
    • Timeliness and Immediacy
    • Proximity
    • Prominence
    • Uniqueness/oddity
    • Conflict
    • Impact and Significance
  • Timeliness and Immediacy

    recent events have a higher news value than less recent ones.
  • Proximity

    stories taking place in one's hometown or communityare more newsworthy than those taking place far away.
  • Prominence

    famous people and those in the public eyehave a higher news value than ordinarycitizens.
  • Uniqueness/oddity

    story with a bizarre twist or strange occurrences."Man bites dog" instead of "dog bites man."
  • Conflict

    "If it bleeds, it leads." Stories with strife, whether it'sactual violence or not, are more interesting.
  • Impact and Significance

    Impact, simply put, is showing relevancy to thepeople affected by a story or event. The greater thenumber of people affected, the greater the impact..
  • 5 Ws and 1 H
    • What was the crime?
    • When and where did it happen?
    • Why did the murderer do it?
    • Who did it?
    • How did it take place?
  • Inverted Pyramid Format
    three dimensional that is referring to special cases Of developmental communication and interpretive Journalism or investigative reportage.
  • Inverted Pyramid Format

    Using the inverted triangle structure, anwriter bears in mind that the most importantinformation is at the top (beginningarticle) and the least important inform ationis at the bottom (end of article)
  • Inverted Pyramid Format
    • The Lead
    • The body
    • The tail
  • Five Basic Parts of News
    • Headline
    • Byline
    • Lead Paragraph or Lead
    • Major Details
    • Minor Details
  • Headline

    short, attention getting statement about the event. It capsulizes the first paragraph.
  • Byline
    indicates the namethe writer or writers of the news article.
  • Lead Paragraph or Lead

    this contains the major who, what, when,where, why and how in it.
  • Major Details

    after the lead paragraph is written, the writer will now decide to weave the major details into paragraphs.
  • Minor Details

    should there bemore space in the paper, the leastimportant details may be written.
  • Major Classifications of Lead

    Summary Lead
    it answers the five W's and one H (What, Who, Where, When, Why and How)
  • Kinds of Summary Lead

    What Lead
    Who Lead
    Where lead
    When lead
    Why lead
    How lead