Guide To Write The News

WRITE news could not arbitrarily, for example "critical reader understand". There are basic guidelines that should be adhered to write news in order to be good news, interesting, effective, and in accordance with the rules and code of conduct.

Many journalists - especially online media reporters - who looks "amateur" in news writing and confront the journalistic code of ethics. For example, news reporters containing the subjective opinion or "too obvious" favoring one party (the forming of public opinion / lead readers opinion) so tendentious.

Basic News Writing Guidelines
The following basic guidelines to write news pages extracted from Teacher Vision, "Basic Journalism".

Inverted Pyramid. Posts inverted pyramid style of journalism should (inverted pyramid). The top (beginning of writing) consists of only one or two laimat which contains important information; This is called a terrace (lead) news. The next section contains descriptive information or detailed information.

Summary of leads (news terrace conclusion), the core message, delivered at the very beginning.
Posts tone (Tone): Your job as a reporter is to report the facts and opinions of others and do not put your personal opinions into the news (leave your own opinions out of the story). If you want to opine or judge an event, there is a separate genre, namely opinion article and / or editorial (tajukrencana / opinion editorial).

Various Sources (Multiple Sources): More and more people are talking (interviewed) will make you increasingly good news. You can use a direct quote (direct quotes) or write it in your own words (paraphrase) is said to be a resource, but should always remember to identify the source (who says what).

Preparation of sentence. Sentence in the news should consist of 20-28 words. Increasingly shorter, more good. Readers have always loved words and writing concise.
5W1H: news pertanyaanwho complete answer (what), what (what), why (why), where (where), when (when), and how (how).

Lead: Opener news, news early manuscript after the title. Usually a summary of the most important information.

Headline: Title or the "focal point" in the content of posts (news). Avoid headline news in the form of interrogative sentence interrogative sentence because not convey information.

Angle: Angle of view (point of view) or a particular way of looking at an event.

Fact-checking: check (check) that the facts in the news is true, including the writing of the name, title, institution.

Basic guidelines for writing news above is just some of the more important guidelines in writing news. The most frequently infringed by a novice reporter and / or "amateur journalists" writing is a matter of tone.