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908: 31: 1229:. Billboards appear as the third or fourth paragraph from the top, and may be up to two paragraphs long. Unlike a lead, a billboard rarely gives everything away. It reflects the fact that feature writers aim to hold their readers' attention to the end, which requires engendering curiosity and offering a "payoff." Feature paragraphs tend to be longer than those of news stories, with smoother transitions between them. Feature writers use the active-verb construction and concrete explanations of straight news but often put more personality in their prose. 893:. Additional billboards of any of these types may appear later in the article (especially on subsequent pages) to entice further reading. Journalistic websites sometimes use animation techniques to swap one billboard for another (e.g. a slide of a call-out may be replaced by a photo with pull quote after some short time has elapsed). Such billboards are also used as pointers to the article in other sections of the publication or site, or as advertisements for the piece in other publication or sites. 861:) can be either a subordinate title under the main headline, or the heading of a subsection of the article. It is a heading that precedes the main text, or a group of paragraphs of the main text. It helps encapsulate the entire piece, or informs the reader of the topic of part of it. Long or complex articles often have more than one subheading. Subheads are thus one type of entry point that help readers make choices, such as where to begin (or stop) reading. 581: 728:; their reputations, according to both professional standards and reader expectations, are often tied to the appearance of objectivity. In its most ideal form, news writing strives to be intelligible to the majority of readers, engaging, and succinct. Within these limits, news stories also aim to be comprehensive. However, other factors are involved, some stylistic and some derived from the media form. 1147:
This structure enables readers to stop reading at any point and still come away with the essence of a story. It allows people to explore a topic to only the depth that their curiosity takes them, and without the imposition of details or nuances that they could consider irrelevant, but still making
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NASA is proposing another space project. The agency's budget request, announced today, included a plan to send another mission to the Moon. This time the agency hopes to establish a long-term facility as a jumping-off point for other space adventures. The budget requests approximately $ 10 billion
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Charnley states that "an effective lead is a brief, sharp statement of the story's essential facts." The lead is normally a single sentence, is ideally 20–25 words in length, and must balance the ideal of maximum information conveyed against the constraint of the unreadability of a long sentence.
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Some writers start their stories with the "1-2-3 lead", yet there are many kinds of lead available. This format invariably starts with a "Five Ws" opening paragraph (as described above), followed by an indirect quote that serves to support a major element of the first paragraph, and then a direct
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in journalism jargon) of a story is typically a complete sentence (e.g., "Pilot Flies Below Bridges to Save Divers"), often with auxiliary verbs and articles removed (e.g., "Remains at Colorado camp linked to missing Chicago man"). However, headlines sometimes omit the subject (e.g., "Jumps From
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This makes writing a lead an optimization problem, in which the goal is to articulate the most encompassing and interesting statement that a writer can make in one sentence, given the material with which he or she has to work. While a rule of thumb says the lead should answer most or all of the
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Among the larger and more respected newspapers, fairness and balance is a major factor in presenting information. Commentary is usually confined to a separate section, though each paper may have a different overall slant. Editorial policies dictate the use of
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Journalists usually describe the organization or structure of a news story as an inverted pyramid. The essential and most interesting elements of a story are put at the beginning, with supporting information following in order of diminishing importance.
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Journalistic prose is explicit and precise and tries not to rely on jargon. As a rule, journalists will not use a long word when a short one will do. They use subject-verb-object construction and vivid, active prose (see
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A feature's first paragraphs often relate an intriguing moment or event, as in an "anecdotal lead". From the particulars of a person or episode, its view quickly broadens to generalities about the story's subject.
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News stories are not the only type of material that appear in newspapers and magazines. Longer articles, such as magazine cover articles and the pieces that lead the inside sections of a newspaper, are known as
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News stories also contain at least one of the following important characteristics relative to the intended audience: proximity, prominence, timeliness, human interest, oddity, or consequence.
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news in several ways. Foremost is the absence of a straight-news lead, most of the time. Instead of offering the essence of a story up front, feature writers may attempt to lure readers in.
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Press release of the Swiss government. Typical structure with title, lead paragraph (summary in bold), other paragraphs (details) and contact information.
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in journalism jargon), comprising the story's first, or leading, sentence or possibly two. The lead almost always forms its own paragraph. The spelling
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The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative Newspaper
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to ensure that they present the most important facts first, rather than requiring the reader to go through several paragraphs to find them.
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A short, catchy word or phrase accompanying a major headline, "intended to provoke interest in, editorialize about, or provide orientation"
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Humans will be going to the Moon again. The NASA announcement came as the agency requested $ 10 billion of appropriations for the project.
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The inverted pyramid structure also enables articles to be trimmed to any arbitrary length during layout, to fit in the space available.
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ideas. News writers try to avoid using the same word more than once in a paragraph (sometimes called an "echo" or "word mirror").
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is capsule summary text, often just one sentence or fragment, which is put into a sidebar or text box (reminiscent of an outdoor
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in journalistic jargon) form the bulk of an article. Common usage is that one or two sentences each form their own paragraph.
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News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, when, where, and why (the
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The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
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Working the Story: A Guide to Reporting and News Writing for Journalists and Public Relations Professionals
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to the journalist(s) who broke a story, even if they are employed by a rival organization. Definitions of
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The specific choices made by a news outlet's editor or editorial board are often collected in a
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aims to provide a comprehensive thesis which tells the reader what the article will cover. A
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Philip Gerard. Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life (1998)
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and/or set off in a box. Nut-shell paragraphs are used particularly in feature stories
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is sometimes used, usually pejoratively, to refer to news-style writing. Another is
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The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Court
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Feature stories often close with a "kicker" rather than simply petering out.
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Article leads are sometimes categorized into hard leads and soft leads. A
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The Editor's Toolbox: A Reference Guide for Beginners and Professionals
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The last story in the news broadcast; a "happy" story to end the show.
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style, where its downsides are often mitigated by the inclusion of an
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The Reporter's Notebook : Writing Tools for Student Journalists
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The Broadcast Journalism Handbook: A Television News Survival Guide
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Starr, Douglas Perret; Dunsford, Deborah Williams (2014-01-14).
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Info-Truck: A blog about delivering information—by the truckload
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they incorporate. It is considered unethical not to attribute a
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The section that signals what a feature is about is called the
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point of view, it is common for a feature article to slip into
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Broadcast Journalism: Techniques of Radio and Television News
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New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage
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M. L. Stein, Susan Paterno, and R. Christopher Burnett.
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The most important structural element of a story is the
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that information available to more interested readers.
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The Newswriter's Handbook Introduction to Journalism
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News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism
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