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•Example: Two people died in a row house fire in
Northeast Philadelphia last night.
•From this lede you get the basics: Two people killed.
Rowhouse fire. Northeast Philadelphia.
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• The first one is written in the S-V-O format: She (subject) read (verb) the book (object).
• Short 、 to the point (four words)、close、vivid
•The second sentence doesn't follow S-V-O.
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A news report
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Lede
• The most important part of any news story is the lede. • The lede is the very first sentence of a news story. In it, the
writer summarizes the most newsworthy points of the story in broad brushstrokes. • If a lede is well-written, it will give the reader a basic idea of what the story is about, even if she skips over the rest of the story.
•Connection severed 、watery、 unfocused、longer
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2. Avoid too many clause
•EX: Officer Joan Lanton, who was at the scene of the murder, which occurred on Elm Street, described the scene as grisly and
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• Sometimes one of those elements will be more
interesting than the rest. • Ex. a celebrity who dies in a car crash. • What makes the story interesting is the fact that a
• News stories are written in the inverted pyramid format. It
means that the most important information goes at the top, or beginning of the story, and the least important stuff goes at the
bottom.
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Keep your writing tight
1. One way to do this is to follow the S-V-O format, which stand for Subject-Verb Object. •Ex: She read the book. • The book was read by her.
said two suspects are being sought.
• Officer Joan Lanton was at the scene of the murder, which occurred on Elm Street. She described the scene as grisly and said two suspects are being sought.
•Then Questions： What caused the fire? Who was killed?
rowhouse?......
What was the address of the
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The Five Ws and the H
Who, What, Where, When, Why and How. Who—gold miners What—were killed When—Thursday（Nov．22） Where—in western Colombia Why—the walls of mine were softened by rain How—（were killed）by crash
celebrity is involved. A car crash in and of itself is all-too common. So you'll want to emphasize that "who" aspect of the story in yed Pyramid
News writing
--basic knowledge
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Definition
“Man bites dog” definition
News：anything that is newsworthy News value：
timeliness of an event importance of an event
prominence of the people or thing concerning an event
uniqueness of an event human interest
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Styles of news
新闻的种类很多，按分类标准的不同，有各 种不同的分类方法。
如按照事件的性质分类： 硬新闻（hard news）：硬新闻也就是“纯新闻消息报道”， 指题材严肃，具有一定时效性的客观事实报道 软新闻（soft news）：软新闻是指情感味浓，写作方法诙谐， 轻松幽默的社会新闻，不注重时效性。 新闻英语中常见的体裁主要有三大类： 消息（news report） 特写（feature） 新闻评论（commentaries/ columns/ rewiew/ editorial）。