NEWS -Lifeblood of the newspaper TYPES OF SUMMARY LEADS -making

use of 5Ws as the opening lead

- Reportage of accurate facts, events, and
ideas that interests a large number of people
NEWS WRITING b. Feature News/ Featurized News
(distinguished from a feature article) - based on
- Manner of packaging and developing a story,
facts, but it uses the suspended interest
and organizing reports of recent events
structure like the narrative, thus it cannot meet
following the journalistic style
the cut-off test
ABCs of News Writing
- the synthesis of journalism, essay and fiction
- Accuracy
CREATIVE NONFICTION - journalism + short
-Brevity story

-Clarity POPULARIZING RESEARCHES

-Fairness Science Writing - writing about scientific

subject matter, often in a non-technical manner
-Balance for an audience of non-scientists
-popularization and translation of researches
ELEMENTS of News Writing - science writing fills the massive information
-Proximity gap (devt and progress is nto communicated b/
what scientists do and know, and what the
-Prominence public understands.
-Timeliness HOW TO WRITE:
-Human Interest 1. Result of the Study
-Oddity 2. Introduction of the problem/study
-Consequence 3. Focus and importance
4. Methodologies
TYPES of News Writing 5. Localization
-Hard News 6. Citation
-Soft News
-News Feature TIPS:
1. Simplify words ex. conflagration
NEWS STRUCTURE 2. Avoid vague words (2-down syllable rule)
a. Straight News - consist of facts given in a 3. Humanize (interviews)
straight manner without embellishment
4. Contextualize (pro-audience)
- main aim is to inform
5. Avoid jargon (technical laguage)
- uses summary leas
6. Explain scientific terms (italicize scientific
-follows inverted pyramid names)