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News Value
新闻与新闻价值（news and news value) News value determiners/determinants ➢ 时效性timeliness 和新鲜感freshness ➢ 重要性importance, consequence, impact or
significance ➢ 显著性prominence ➢ 接近性nearness, proximity or locality
What: The boy confessed his love to the girl in front of their classmates and took her away with the professor’s consent; the story spread rapidly and created a stir on the Internet
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Sample lead
The student union next week will award the title of “Model Student in Learning from Lei Feng” to a fourth-year computer major who has been, for more than three years, helping a disabled roommate climb stairs, carry books , and get meals and hot water.
4. They decorate the page; 5. They fill the space
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Headline Grammar Rule
Sentences are preferred to phrases. A Fortunate Grandmother Granny Hugs Daughter Lost for 30 Years (2) Nominal groups are condensed Co-Hab off campus Triggers Arguments
When: Tuesday, right before the Foreign Literature class started
Where: in a classroom on Xianlin campus
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The lead offers the most essential
Elements telling who what when where why and how of the story
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消息的基本结构
News- headline Lead Inverted Pyramid Style body
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The Importance of Headline
1. They summarize the news, so that by taking a glance at the headline, the reader will know what the story is about
stage and greeted the students of Nanjing University when they were gathered to celebrate the May Fourth Youth Day yesterday.
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2. A lead should begin with the most important elements of information. The death toll soar to 750 as a devastating 8.8magnitude earthquake hit Chile on early Saturday.
2. They attract the reader’s attention with large print and sometimes with language of shocking or sensational effect;
3. They index the news, i.e, rank the importance of stories by the size of the print and placement on the page
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新闻与新闻价值 ➢ 奇异性unusualness, bizarreness, oddity or novelty
( when a dog bites a man, that’s not news; but when a man bites a dog, that’s news) ➢ 趣味性 interest, crime, morals and ethics, population, life, marriage, family, friendship, love and emotion, money, sex.
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3. A lead writer should active voice if possible A power outrage last night was caused by a fuse blowout
in Dormitory No.12. A power outrage last night angered dozens of students in
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Write up a lead based on the following facts. You don’t have to include all details.
Who: A boy student and a girl student, Professor Tang, all from the Chinese Department of Nanjing University
报道的内容：political news, economic news, technological news, cultural news, sports news, violence and crime news, disaster news, weather news, obituary, entertainment.
(3) The past tense verb form does not have “ed” Horse Bites Girl On Face Sexual Harassment Sparks Concern on Campus
(4) When you headline future events, “will” or “shall” is replaced by “to”. French Major to Compete in Beijing President to Talk on Peace Pact
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可以互相讨论下，但要小声点
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Tips for Writing a Lead
A lead should contain the essence of the story. Noble Prize laureate Jim Hoffman went up to the
英语新闻写作 English news writing
Classifications
按传播工具分：Newspaper coverage, magazine coverage, radio news, TV news, cable news, dispatches.
新闻事实发生的地域和范围：home news, local news
e.g., Dental surgeons said yesterday they had discovered why snoring can kill sometimes: it can damage the arteries.
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Li Jun and Wang Hao are fourth-year computer major sharing the same dormitory. Due to a severe case of polio in childhood, Wang Hao has to walk with two crutches. For more than three years since they entered the University, Li Jun has been helping his roommate climb stairs, carry things, and get meals and hot water regardless of how bad the weather is. Last semester when the class had an outing, Li Jun borrowed a wheelchair so that Wang Hao could go hiking with others. Li and other students pushed the wheelchair all the way to the top of the mountain. Because of what Li Jun has done for Wang Hao over the years, the student union of the University decided at a recent meeting to award Li Jun the title of “ Model Student in Learning from Lei Feng” when they hold the May Fourth Youth Day student meeting next week.
Dormitory No.12 who lost files in their computers.