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Descriptions help readers visualize people and places. The best descriptions use
concrete, factual details.
A good transitional sentence
presents some interesting details about the new topic.
If there is humor in a news story, it should be apparent
from the facts of the story.
If a news story reports on a controversy in which one person has made accusations against another, the reporter should
include the response of the accused party in the same story.
The process of reporting and presenting news stories has shifted from
linear to nonlinear.
Because of the Internet, readers are now able to
jump in and out of the standard sequence of a news story.
Most stories on news websites are
one to three Web pages in length.
News stories presented on the Web often
are packages combining words, sound, video and still photos.
News stories published on the Web often use a
sans serif typeface, such as Arial or Helvetica.
Reporters should think of news stories for the Web as a tree with
the central point as the trunk and the written story, audio, video, photographs and links as major branches.
An important decision a reporter must make about using video on the Web is whether
it will be used to tell the whole story or just to emphasize or dramatize certain parts of the story.
Reporters say one of the requirements for a successful blog is
producing fresh content regularly to hold readers’ attention.
In planning a blog, the writer must decide
what will be the blog’s purpose and what it will cover.
Some experts on blogging, say blogs should be updated a minimum of
two or three times a week.
The ability of a community to collectively contribute to the flow of information is called
crowdsourcing.
Publishing brief text messages through instant messaging, email or the Web is called
microblogging.
