How to write news 101

1. Noshin Jahan

2.  You want to be able to captivate
your audience, and informing them
of your story.
 The introduction should be too long,
but enough to let the audience
know what it is about.
 Your introduction shouldn't give
everything away.
 The most popular and successful
introduction anticipates the
audience.

3. • To allure your audience, it is important to entertain
them.
• You should make them feel included this is a good way
to captivate your audience.
• For example:
Playing on words. The most successful and popular
newspaper headlines out there intelligently use words..
• Stories that the audience want to hear: The audience
want to hear stories that are local so they are informed
of what is happening in their local area.
• Also you might have a different target audience that
want to hear different types of stories. For example, a
young target audience with the age range of 13-26 may
want to hear entertaining news, such as celebrity news
or what fun opportunities are going on in their area.

4.  Who?
 What?
 Where?
 When?
 Why?
 (How?)
 It is vital to realise the importance of informing your
audience, so that you are giving the audience correct
information.

5.  It is important when writing a story, you must not be
bias but impartial.
 Good journalism means respecting people and
making sure you ask permission of the people you
are writing a story about, this makes sure that no one
feels disrespected.
 For example, when writing a story about upcoming
elections, a good journalist would give provide
information of all the different parties so that the
people reading are able to make their own choice.
 Yes, we have a freedom of speech, but as a journalist
it is crucial to respect others.

6.  Consider news story to be about people and how people are affected. In stories it is
important to include how individuals are personally affected.
 Give quotes: quoting people gives a perspective of how other people feel.
 Make stories short and simple, stories that are too long may make the audience
bored and wouldn't want to tune it. The audience want short and quick news so
that they have the necessary information instead of lengthy news story that seem
unnecessary.