What is News?
Information or reports about recent events.
What is News Reports?
-Found in newspapers and their purpose is to inform of what is happening in the world around them. -Newspapers have a certain structure called the inverted pyramid.
What is the Inverted Pyramid?
The structure of news reports.
Parts of News Reports
- Headline
-Must be eye-catching.
-The summary of the text. - Head
-Contains all the necessary information.
-Must answer the 5Ws and an H (What, Who, Where, Why, When, and How). - Body
-Must contains the second most important information.
-Quotes with facts and background information. - The least important.
Key Components of a Good Information
- Attention-grabbing headline
- A strong lead containing the 5ws and H (Who, what, why, where, when, and how).
- Use of quotes.
- Real Facts (Truth and accuracy matters).
- A strong summary.
- Organization it the news (presenting information from most to least important).
The Key Elements in Considering “News Worthiness”
- Timing - The news must be recent.
- Significance - How many people are affected.
- Proximity - The closer a story hits to the home, the more news worthy it is.
- Prominence - The more popular a topic or a person is being discussed, the more attention it will grab.
- Human Interest - Have an emotional appeal.
Tips on Presenting Your News
- Use an introduction
- Make sure these sentences are easy to understand and should be delivered no longer than 30 seconds.
- Check if you are saying the names of people and places correctly.
- When you read your introduction, speak clearly and be enthusiastic.
- You can emphasize important words by pausing before you say then or saying them a little louder: mark these words on your script so you will not forget
- Speak in normal voice.
- You don’t have to shout, and you shouldn’t whisper.
- Stand or sit up straight, be natural. Try not to move too much or it will distract your audience.
- Practice with the camera and microphone to get used to what it feels like to present news.
- Have fun.
Characteristics of a good information
- Accuracy - means correctness. A good information is reliable, free form flaws, and of high quality.
- Completeness - Endorsing all the details that answer to WHs question.
• What - ask questions about people or object.
• Who - ask questions about people.
• When - ask questions related to time.
• Where - ask questions about places.
• Why - ask questions about reason.
• How - ask questions about manner, condition, or quality.
- Consistency - A state of reaching a level that does not greatly differ in quality over time to ensure that the I formation is unchanging.
• Select terms to be used consistently throughout the whole article.
• Follow a standard format for presenting information.
• Always write first the in-text reference when using acronyms, abbreviation, etc.
- Relevance - Information should suit the demands, needs, and interests of the readers by determining:
•The object of the information report.
•Whether the information obtained focusses on the identified objects.
- Uniqueness - Information must be distinct
