1. Journalistic Writing Style
For news articles

2. Narrative Writing vs. Journalistic Writing

3. Narrative: Has a beginning, middle, and end
Engages the reader’s mind and heart
shows actors moving across its stage, revealing their characters through their actions and their speech
contains a mystery or a question— something that compels the reader to keep reading and find out what happens
Narrative:

4. News Article: Inverted pyramid structure
Entirely true and factual in every detail
Must be concrete, understandable and straight forward
Avoids imagination and opinion
Words must be concise
News Article:

5. Inverted Pyramid Structure:
Lead
Nut graph
Fluff

6. The Lead: The lead is the first paragraph
should be short; one to two sentences only
It must grab the readers’ interest
It gives the who, what, when, where and why
The Lead:

7. The Nut Graph: Nut graph is short form for paragraph in a nutshell
The second paragraph in a news article explains the story in a nutshell
Think of how you would tell the story if you only had one minute in which to tell it
The Nut Graph:

8. The fluff is less important information that fills out the news article
Background information
Quotations
Explanations
The Fluff:

9. Things to avoid in journalistic writing:
Opinion
Speculation
Poetic description
Wordiness
Things to avoid in journalistic writing:

10. Opinion: Better: ```` Eliminating Opinion:
We think everyone should take their families to The Ex. to experience the best Toronto has to offer.
Families can go to The Ex. To experience the best Toronto has to offer.

11. Eliminating Poetic Description:
Better: ````
Eliminating Poetic Description:
A beautiful, sunny afternoon in the heart of Canada’s most metropolitan city was brutally interrupted by a vicious, fatal stabbing today.
A 43 year old male was fatally stabbed at the corner of Jane and Finch today.

12. Eliminating Wordiness:
Wordy:
Better: ````
Eliminating Wordiness:
Despite the fact that she was feeling ill, she came to the conclusion that she would go to work
Despite feeling ill, she decided to go to work.

13. Let’s practice eliminating wordiness

14. Eliminating Wordiness:
Wordy:
Better: ````
Eliminating Wordiness:
Because of the fact that he got a good grade on the midterm, he decided to take the night off.
He did well on the midterm, so he took the night off.

15. Eliminate the Wordiness:
Wordy:
Better: ````
Eliminate the Wordiness:
The children were tired and exhausted after the long climb to the high top of the mountain. ?

16. Eliminate the Wordiness:
Wordy:
Better: ````
Eliminate the Wordiness:
The dog was walked by the two girls who were sisters. ?

17. Now you are ready to try…

18. Finished Product: How Energy Drinks Affect Your Body Within 24 Hours
Honor Whiteman
August 15, 2015
Last year the World Health organization hailed energy drinks “a danger to public health”, after they found consumption of such beverages is on the rise. Now, an infographic created by Personalise.co.uk claims to show exactly what happens to the body in the 24 hours after consuming an energy drink.
Created using information from sources including the UK’s National Health Services (NHS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and energy drink manufacturer Red Bull, the infographic follows another that went viral earlier this month…
Finished Product:

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20. Journalistic Writing Style
For news articles