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The test

The test. Five Ws and a H. Who What Where When Why How. I can never prepare pancakes in England. Seven elements of news. I can never prepare pancakes in England Impact Conflict Novelty Prominence Proximity Immediacy Emotions. Few other test notes. Attributions.

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The test

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  1. The test

  2. Five Ws and a H • Who • What • Where • When • Why • How

  3. I can never prepare pancakes in England

  4. Seven elements of news • I can never prepare pancakes in England • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence • Proximity • Immediacy • Emotions

  5. Few other test notes • Attributions

  6. Few other test notes • Attributions • Don’t convict those arrested: “killer”

  7. Few other test notes • Attributions • Don’t convict those arrested: “killer” • Remember the “deferred” ID lede

  8. Few other test notes • Attributions • Don’t convict those arrested: “killer” • Remember the “deferred” ID lede • Treat facts as jewels you’re setting in a crown: “level at which you’re impaired”; “police convicted”; “Pizza Hut” was burned; “both men confessed”; wrong URL

  9. Beyond the IP (inverted pyramid) • Yes, journalism is a lot more than the IP... but it remains the foundation of journalism

  10. Beyond the IP (inverted pyramid) • Yes, journalism is a lot more than the IP... but it remains the foundation of journalism • If time, space and detail are available, we can use the techniques of narration and structures other than IP

  11. Beyond the IP (inverted pyramid) • Yes, journalism is a lot more than the IP... but it remains the foundation of journalism • If time, space and detail are available, we can use the techniques of narration and structures other than IP • Can be anything from a car wreck, a routine meeting or politics

  12. Narration • Simply telling a story, using characters, scenes, anecdotes and dialogue... mixed in with chronology

  13. Narration • Simply telling a story, using characters, scenes, anecdotes and dialogue... mixed in with chronology • Seen in newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and online

  14. Narration • Simply telling a story, using characters, scenes, anecdotes and dialogue... mixed in with chronology • Seen in newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and online • Analogous to a movie or a novel: you usually don’t get everything in the first two graphs

  15. Narration • Simply telling a story, using characters, scenes, anecdotes and dialogue... mixed in with chronology • Seen in newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and online • Analogous to a movie or a novel: you usually don’t get everything in the first two graphs • There are specific techniques we can deploy

  16. Vivid scenes • Capture the color of the situation and the characters

  17. Vivid scenes • Capture the color of the situation and the characters • “We should all try to make readers see, smell, taste and hear”

  18. Vivid scenes • Capture the color of the situation and the characters • “We should all try to make readers see, smell, taste and hear” • Develop your senses for the details that make the story

  19. Dialogue • People talking with one another

  20. Dialogue • People talking with one another • Ideal when two or more people are talking, especially in conflict

  21. Dialogue • People talking with one another • Ideal when two or more people are talking, especially in conflict • Where would the Bible be without dialogue?

  22. John 14:5-7 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”   6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

  23. John 14:5-7 remix JERUSALEM -- In a meeting with his disciples on June 13, Jesus of Nazareth said he was the only way to salvation, a controversial claim roiling the combustible Galilee religious scene. Jesus made the statement after Thomas, one of his followers, asked: “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Sources told the Nazareth Gazette that Jesus then said. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Jesus continued by comparing himself to his father, who he declined to directly identify. However, the Gazette has learned that his father wasJoseph, a carpenter who died in the year 18 from unknown causes.

  24. Narration • Take your reader right to the scene... and then get out of the way!

  25. Service journalism

  26. Service journalism • News You Can Use

  27. Service journalism • News You Can Use • What does the reader need to know to act on this information

  28. Service journalism • News You Can Use • What does the reader need to know to act on this information • Use of boxes

  29. Service journalism • News You Can Use • What does the reader need to know to act on this information • Use of boxes, bullets

  30. Service journalism • News You Can Use • What does the reader need to know to act on this information • Use of boxes, bullets, subheads

  31. Service journalism • News You Can Use • What does the reader need to know to act on this information • Use of boxes, bullets, subheads • Addresses, websites, instructions, directions, maps, phone numbers

  32. Focus structure: WSJ style

  33. Focus structure: WSJ style • “10 million deaths are a statistic; one death is a tragedy.” Stalin

  34. Focus structure: WSJ style • “10 million deaths are a statistic; one death is a tragedy.” Stalin • Start by focusing on one individual

  35. Focus structure: WSJ style • “10 million deaths are a statistic; one death is a tragedy.” Stalin • Start by focusing on one individual • Transition to larger issue

  36. Focus structure: WSJ style • “10 million deaths are a statistic; one death is a tragedy.” Stalin • Start by focusing on one individual • Transition to larger issue • Report on larger issue

  37. Focus structure: WSJ style • “10 million deaths are a statistic; one death is a tragedy.” Stalin • Start by focusing on one individual • Transition to larger issue • Report on larger issue • Return to opening focus

  38. Focus structure: WSJ style • “10 million deaths are a statistic; one death is a tragedy.” Stalin • Start by focusing on one individual • Transition to larger issue • Report on larger issue • Return to opening focus • Use foreshadowing: you will want to read the rest of this because something else is going to happen!

  39. Focus structure: WSJ style • Don’t forget the “so what”: the impact of this story on the reader – it could happen to me!

  40. Focus structure: WSJ style • Don’t forget the “so what”: the impact of this story on the reader – it could happen to me! • And, unlike an inverted pyramid story, write an ending

  41. Focus structure: WSJ style • Don’t forget the “so what”: the impact of this story on the reader – it could happen to me! • And, unlike an inverted pyramid story, write an ending • The “tie-back” is typical... go back to the lede and bring it all together

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