How to write a news story for a newspaper

Many people would love to see published news written by them in some media, such as a newspaper or magazine. For all those who have ever considered writing news or who are going to do it shortly, it offers some basic guidelines for writing good information.

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Structure the information you have and think what would be newsworthy . As they say in the faculties of journalism: That a dog bites a man is not news, but if it is a man who bites the dog, then things change.

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Once you have decided what is the most news aspect of the information you have covered, this information should go in the first paragraph or, as it is also called, in the news. This technique is called inverted pyramid and consists in that the most relevant information is placed at the beginning of the news and the least relevant at the end.

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In the first paragraph of the news you must try to answer the six W. What, who, how, when, where and why . Answering these six questions will help you to report the most relevant. On that, the journalist already orders the questions that he has to answer before or after when transcribing the information.

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Once you have written the news, title it. The owner is what summarizes the news, so it must reflect an important aspect of it.

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When writing a story it is very important to avoid the technicalities that nobody understands. When you write one, think before if someone outside of her, such as your mother or grandmother, would understand the meaning of the news. If so, go ahead. If on the contrary you think that they would not understand the information completely well, that means that you will have to simplify much more the news that you have written.

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Finally, when writing any news keep in mind that the main characteristics of media information is that they are current news, that are unknown, true to reality and with a marked public interest.