Which News Medium Do You Prefer? https://www.writersdigest.com/which-news-medium-do-you-prefer #Interviews/Journalism #WriteBetterNonfiction #NewsWriting #journalism #publishing #Articles #news
#NewsWriting
What Is ‘Soft News’ in Journalism? Why Are These Stories Important? https://www.writersdigest.com/what-is-soft-news-in-journalism-why-are-these-stories-important #Interviews/Journalism #WriteBetterNonfiction #JournalisticWriting #NewsWriting #journalism #Journalist #Articles #news
When the AP uses "impact" as a verb you know something's up.
Aflac duck in the news.
"Cyberattacks against companies have been rampant for years, but a string of attacks on retail companies have raised awareness of the issue because the breaches can impact customers."
https://apnews.com/article/aflac-cyberattack-breach-victorias-secret-ssn-fac4b3b978c616d82c575080853f095f
Lede-of-the-Day:
NEW YORK (AP) — For once, things are working out for Wile E. Coyote.
https://apnews.com/article/coyote-vs-acme-warner-bros-saved-411e99589de184d4ba1061116b3c96e7
Free lesson plan for #journalism #trainers #teaching #journalists about fact-checking. Download and adapt for your own purposes. And please let us know if it was any help. Thanks. #media #newswriting #news
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/lessons/lesson-fact-checking-and-adding-context/
I •think• there's a grammatical error in that headline: it should be "…but died before he did."
I might be wrong, though, and the rules keep changing anyway.
Went to interview Santa for a little community story. For the interview, he actually patted his chair and had me sit with him like one of the kids. So I included that detail in the story.
https://www.lascrucesbulletin.com/stories/santa-plans-christmas-eve-shave-for-charity,102409
My students' reactions to a poster which sums up their own thoughts on #ungrading (which they had to think about in a previous session) in my class #NewsWriting at @Journalismus_PR. Isn't the cat pawsome? 🐈⬛😻😸 Whoop, whoop for my students #jpr24 #cats #teaching #HigherEducation #Online
Does everyone know "the 5W's and sometimes How"?
This is a simple checklist used in #journalism, and refers to six questions every #news article should answer, and the first 5 should be answered in the lede:
- Who?
- What?
- Where?
- When?
- Why?
- How?
These questions help identify key details regarding an event, and #reporting about it.
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#journalists #newsconsumption #reportingguidelines #newseditor #newswriting #editor
I very much like how the CBS Evening News has stopped opening the show by teasing every single story in the broadcast. I never understood that. And I'm a former news producer who had to write show-opening "headlines," so I get the concept. But I always thought it was majorly overboard to have two minutes of headlines before getting to the top story.
#CBS #Newswriting
to my students of #jpr23 at @Journalismus_PR This account offers purrfect examples of news reporting: @cat_news
Mastodon always offers good examples for my class on News Writing
A Freudian typo? Writing "flopped classroom method" instead of "flipped classroom method" in the students' syllabus for #jpr23
I hope not but let's see
I should plug, on that note, some nice work over the last 48 hours by Dani Prokop at Source New Mexico (sourcenm.com) as she watches the scene at a border crossing near #ElPaso. Effectively acting as a correspondent observing an unpredictable humanitarian situation.
Reading this collection of #Hemingway’s #journalism and today, specifically, dispatches for the Toronto Daily Star from Asia Minor during the Greco-Turkish population “exchange” (also known as a civil ethnic-religious cleansing) in 1922-23.
I have a real taste for these vivid portrayals of scenes like this, and wish I saw that kind of work produced today. A good #correspondent is such a feather in a newspaper’s/website’s cap.
How #politicians sometimes use the passive voice to evade #accountability, and why #journalists should consider using the active voice when #reporting.
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/basics/the-active-and-passive-voices-in-news/
#journalism #writing #politics #communications #spin #news #newswriting
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