This document provides guidance on conceiving, reporting, organizing, and writing a news feature story. It defines a news feature as an in-depth story generated by reporters that is longer than a basic news story but not breaking news. The document discusses finding story ideas, assessing whether an idea merits further reporting, developing a theme sentence and nut graph to guide reporting, interviewing a variety of sources, organizing information using the six key concepts, and following a three-part structure with an anecdotal lead, supporting details, and concluding quotes.
News writing is a key factor for journalists, but it helps with other types of writing as well. Here well known personality of Canada Media, Presenting News Writing Skills.
News writing is a key factor for journalists, but it helps with other types of writing as well. Here well known personality of Canada Media, Presenting News Writing Skills.
Hi, this is Billy from LSM. Please refer to this powerpoint presentation for better understanding on the subject matter. You can comment here or you can comment via FB for you questions. Thank you and Pax et Bonum!
Hi, this is Billy from LSM. Please refer to this powerpoint presentation for better understanding on the subject matter. You can comment here or you can comment via FB for you questions. Thank you and Pax et Bonum!
Unit 6.3: Non-Fiction Study: Newspapers and Current Events
News Article presentation from: http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/The_elements_of_a_good_headline_18114.aspx
I DO NOT OWN THE NEWS ARTICLE PRESENTATION PART.
Writing for Impact is a three-day science communications course organised by Ninad Bondre and Owen Gaffney. The first course took place in Nepal, February 2015.
25 environmental economists in the SANDEE (South Asia Network for Development and Environmental Economics) network participated.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
3. What is a news feature?
• Not breaking news
• Not merely a human-interest story
4. What is a news feature?
• Not breaking news
• Not merely a human-interest story
• Generated by reporter and editor
5. What is a news feature?
• Not breaking news
• Not merely a human-interest story
• Generated by reporter and editor
• Freedom to define what the story is
6. Is it a newspaper
or magazine story?
• Lines have blurred — “magazine” story can
appear in a newspaper or online
7. Is it a newspaper
or magazine story?
• Lines have blurred — “magazine” story can
appear in a newspaper or online
• Medium-length feature — 1,500 to 2,500
words
8. Is it a newspaper
or magazine story?
• Lines have blurred — “magazine” story can
appear in a newspaper or online
• Medium-length feature — 1,500 to 2,500
words
• News story — 700 to 1,200 words
9. Is it a newspaper
or magazine story?
• Lines have blurred — “magazine” story can
appear in a newspaper or online
• Medium-length feature — 1,500 to 2,500
words
• News story — 700 to 1,200 words
• Longer magazine story — 3,000 to 10,000
words
14. Is there a story?
• Pre-reporting
• Google, LexisNexis, etc.
– What can you learn?
– Who else has written about this?
15. Is there a story?
• Pre-reporting
• Google, LexisNexis, etc.
– What can you learn?
– Who else has written about this?
• Short interviews to refine story and see if
sources will be available
16. Theme sentence
• A sentence (or two) explaining precisely
what your story is
17. Theme sentence
• A sentence (or two) explaining precisely
what your story is
• A guide to your reporting — cut it out,
paste it on the wall in front of you
18. Theme sentence
• A sentence (or two) explaining precisely
what your story is
• A guide to your reporting — cut it out,
paste it on the wall in front of you
• Could form basis of your lead or nut
19. Theme sentence
• A sentence (or two) explaining precisely
what your story is
• A guide to your reporting — cut it out,
paste it on the wall in front of you
• Could form basis of your lead or nut
• Could serve as your pitch
20. Theme sentence
• A sentence (or two) explaining precisely
what your story is
• A guide to your reporting — cut it out,
paste it on the wall in front of you
• Could form basis of your lead or nut
• Could serve as your pitch
• You might have to change it
22. The nut graph
• Usually the third or fourth paragraph
• It places the anecdotal lead in context by
answering three questions
23. The nut graph
• Usually the third or fourth paragraph
• It places the anecdotal lead in context by
answering three questions
• What is the story about?
24. The nut graph
• Usually the third or fourth paragraph
• It places the anecdotal lead in context by
answering three questions
• What is the story about?
• Where is the story going?
25. The nut graph
• Usually the third or fourth paragraph
• It places the anecdotal lead in context by
answering three questions
• What is the story about?
• Where is the story going?
• Why should the reader keep reading?
26. Whom should you interview?
• Horizontal diversity
– Variety of viewpoints — fair and neutral
27. Whom should you interview?
• Horizontal diversity
– Variety of viewpoints — fair and neutral
• Vertical diversity
– Variety of sources — key players, expert
observers and ordinary people
35. Organizing and writing
• Step one — read through your material
quickly
• Step two — re-read slowly, organizing it as
you prepare to write
36. Organizing and writing
• Step one — read through your material
quickly
• Step two — re-read slowly, organizing it as
you prepare to write
• Keep related material together
37. Organizing and writing
• Step one — read through your material
quickly
• Step two — re-read slowly, organizing it as
you prepare to write
• Keep related material together
• Try not to bring sources back for an encore
38. Organizing and writing
• Step one — read through your material
quickly
• Step two — re-read slowly, organizing it as
you prepare to write
• Keep related material together
• Try not to bring sources back for an encore
• Aim for a memorable ending
45. A generic news-feature outline
• Part two
– Secondary lead
– Explication and narrative
– Flesh out all or some of the six key concepts
• History, scope, reasons, impacts, countermoves,
futures
48. A generic news-feature outline
• Part three
– Can be short
– “Circling back”
• Quote from person you opened with
49. A generic news-feature outline
• Part three
– Can be short
– “Circling back”
• Quote from person you opened with
• Quote from another, similar person
50. A generic news-feature outline
• Part three
– Can be short
– “Circling back”
• Quote from person you opened with
• Quote from another, similar person
• Your own attempt to sum up
51. Too formulaic?
• Not as much as it seems, especially after
you’ve done it a few times
52. Too formulaic?
• Not as much as it seems, especially after
you’ve done it a few times
• Not the only way to write a news feature,
but simple and effective
53. Too formulaic?
• Not as much as it seems, especially after
you’ve done it a few times
• Not the only way to write a news feature,
but simple and effective
• Sometimes editors want something
different
54. Reading for journalists
• William E. Blundell, “The Art and Craft of
Feature Writing” (much of this slideshow is
based on his ideas)
55. Reading for journalists
• William E. Blundell, “The Art and Craft of
Feature Writing”
• William K. Zinsser, “On Writing Well”
56. Reading for journalists
• William E. Blundell, “The Art and Craft of
Feature Writing”
• William K. Zinsser, “On Writing Well”
• Donald M. Murray, “Writing to Deadline”
57. Reading for journalists
• William E. Blundell, “The Art and Craft of
Feature Writing”
• William K. Zinsser, “On Writing Well”
• Donald M. Murray, “Writing to Deadline”
• Strunk and White, “The Elements of Style”
58. Reading for journalists
• William E. Blundell, “The Art and Craft of
Feature Writing”
• William K. Zinsser, “On Writing Well”
• Donald M. Murray, “Writing to Deadline”
• Strunk and White, “The Elements of Style”
• Anywhere good news features are
published