Basics on News & Feature Writing

Basics on News & Feature Writing

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  Basics of News and FeatureWriting gaphor m. panimbang
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  Writing Effective Headlines •Use active voice and strong present-tense verbs. • The first word in the head should be capitalized as should all proper nouns. • Use the present tense for the past stories and the infinitive form for future stories • start a sentence with a number and, even though that number is below 10, you do not have to spell it out. • Use periods for abbreviations only, and use single quotes where you would use double quotes in a story. • The semicolon is used normally: separating two thoughts of equal weight. • Don't use proper names in headlines unless the name is well- known enough to be recognized immediately. The same is true for abbreviations. • Avoid the use of the articles a, an and the unless they are needed for clarity.
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  Headline Vocabulary • Facultyclub strengthened (beefed up) • Enrolment decreases (dips) • Science Examinations announced (quiz, bared) • Contests highlight Animal Week (cap) • President Aquino urges for cooperation (bats for, calls for) • DepEd Secretary disapproves tuition fee increase (bucks, hike) • Nationalism a necessity in education (vital cog) • Principal praises Pepito’s humility (lauds, extols) • Navarro keynote speaker at YMCA conference ( keynotes YMCA confab) • Local staff dominates press title (rules, lords over) • Student writers prepare for journalism contest (scribes hone up for Press tilt) • ‘My Little Bossing’ to be shown in January ( booked for)
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  What is alead? LeadLead is an introduction of a news story. This may be a single word, a phrase, a clause, a brief sentence, an entire paragraph or a series of paragraph. It’s main function is to tell the story in capsule form and to answer right away the questions the reader would ask . .
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  6 Rules forWriting News Leads Rule 1Rule 1 A straight news lead should be a single paragraph consisting of a single sentence, and should summarize, at minimum, the most newsworthy "what," "where" and "when" of the story. Rule 2Rule 2 The lead's first verb should express the main "what" of the story and should be placed among the lead's first seven words. Rule 3Rule 3 The lead's first verb should express the main "what" of the story and should be placed among the lead's first seven words. Rule 4Rule 4 If there's a "who" involved in the story, the lead should give some indication of who the "who" is. Rule 5Rule 5 The lead should summarize the "why" and "how" of the story, but only if there's room.
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  Straight News Story SummaryLead
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  What are FeatureStories? • Feature stories are human-interest articles that focus on particular people, places and events. • Feature stories are journalistic, researched, descriptive, colorful, thoughtful, reflective, thorough writing about original ideas. • Feature stories cover topics in depth, going further than mere hard news coverage by amplifying and explaining the most interesting and important elements of a situation or occurrence. • Feature stories are popular content elements of newspapers, magazines, blogs, websites, newsletters, television broadcasts and other mass media.
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  Topics for FeatureStories NARRATIVNARRATIV ESES BACKGROUNDERSBACKGROUNDERS DEVELOPMENTALDEVELOPMENTAL FEATURE ARTICLESFEATURE ARTICLES PERSONALITIESPERSONALITIES EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCE WHAT TO DO &WHAT TO DO & HOW TO DOHOW TO DO ARTICLESARTICLES ADVENTURESADVENTURES DESCRIPTIODESCRIPTIO NN
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  Structure ClimaxClimax Secondary Interest Secondary Interest Climax Secondary Interest Details FICTION AND DRAMA Details NEWSSTORYIncreasing Interest Decreasing Interest
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