How To Write Sports News Stories On A Tight Deadline

Covering a sports game for a newspaper or a news blog?  Chances are, you will be on a tight deadline in this situation.   Here are a few tips to make sure you meet it.

News Leads: What To Include, What To Leave Out

When writing the lead for a news story, the goal is to hook the reader into the story while remaining informative and concise.  That means, picking out the details that matter and leaving out those that don’t.

Good Practices For Writing The Body Of A News Story

You can write the body of a news story any way you want.  Writing it a bit more strategically, though, should help it be more effective in accomplishing your purpose for the piece.

How To Write A Summary Lead

The summary lead is the most traditional form of lead in news writing.  Frequently employed for breaking news, it adopts a “just the facts” approach that quickly gives a rundown of the six basic information that matters in  a news story (i.e. who, what, where, when, why, how), mapping its nuts and bolts in a brief manner.

What Constitutes A Newsworthy Story?

Entertaining plans of someday writing in the wild, world of news reporting? If you are, there’s one thing you’ll have to learn before everything else, well before you concern yourself with headlines, nut graphs and news writing software.


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