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NEWS WRITING
- Main or Primary lead
THE BODY - Support or Secondary
lead
DON DAVE DR. VENTURA
- Details/Particulars
- Background

NEWS WRITING NEWS WRITING

Secondary lead – Details or particulars –
complements and to give flesh to the
supports the main lead. story, all available facts
are included here.

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Background – relevant - The one sentence-one
past events are paragraph principle is still
preferred but if it is
recounted and expanded, don’t go
incorporated in this beyond three sentences
portion of the story. in a paragraph.

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- Arrange paragraphs in Nut graph is a
the order of descending
importance so it will be paragraph the explains
easy to trim without the context of the
impairing the substance story.
of the story.

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The nut graph is in the Example: The NAIA, the
country’s main international
middle of the story and gateway , has been beset
explains why the story with congestion and
is important. inefficiency in recent years.

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Quotes – exact Quotes solidify news
quotations from an stories and gives
interview or news context to the story.
material.

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Quotes from sources add Quotes use quotation
authenticity to a news marks and are the
verbatim words of the
story because it allows source whether the
the source to speak source is a person or a
directly to the readers. document.

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