Journalism: What we are learning about newspapers
Choosing a newsworthy topic
- Timeliness - ideas or stories that have just taken place or are seasonally appropriate
- Conflict - a difference of opinion, fight, or struggle
- Prominence - well-known people and the event in which he/she is involved
- Proximity - events that occur near the the reader and are therefore of interest to them
- Significance - an event or person that has an effect on the readers' life
- Human Interest - people or events that appeal to the readers' emotions
Writing a newspaper article
- Objectivity - not influenced by personal opinion; keeping the writer's opinion out of the article
- Angle - the point or slant to the article; the thesis of the article
- Lead - the first paragraph of a story
- Starting with 5 W's-who, what, when, where- from most important to least important
