Monday, August 1, 2011

Writing a News Feature Story

When writing stories, one of the first things you must consider the target audience. Is it for the general public or to a particular group of readers? If you're writing for readers of lifestyle magazines and lifestyle section of newspapers, for example, you should consider whether you should write from the view of a third party or the other?
Most of the feature stories are written from a third party. Exceptions in which another person is used instead, when we talk about "what you should get," say, or an opportunity for the festive season. Rarely is the first person who used to write a feature unless the author recounts her own experience.
Take for example the first paragraph report on entrepreneurship written in third person:
    John lost his job two years ago because of the slowing economy. Believing that only temporarily, is actively seeking employment, while upgrading their skills through short courses. Today, he is still unemployed. Now aged 41, he is forced to consider self-employment and entrepreneurship, but is hesitant because he was employed his entire life.
If this is the first paragraph is written in second person, it would read as follows:
    You have been an employee all his life. Two years ago, have lost their jobs due to economic downturn. Believing only be a temporary decline, and actively seeking work, while upgrading their skills through short courses. Today, you are still unemployed.
As you can see from the two approaches, the third-person voice draws the reader into the story much better than other people because there is no need for personal involvement in the story, unless it is a call to action. It works fine if you use the second person to write a lifestyle magazine show purchases of goods, but not okay for a news story, a feature that aims to convey a message that contains facts and advice.
When writing a story for the news feature, four components to consider: anecdotes, quotes, facts, and statements subject .
of anecdotes in a feature news story should be written from a third party naratora.Svrha this is to use the contents of 'pull' to attract readers to a sense of reading a novel or storybook. For reports to be successful, at least one anecdote should be included in order to present to readers the "real" situation or a person's life that is told in anecdotes.
features should also contain facts and quotations for the human interest angles. Facts can be a research report to quantify the content of the story, the official statistics, or actual events witnessed people:
    According to official data from the labor department, unemployment is now at 4.5 percent.
Quotes account of the events are actual witnesses or spoken comments of people interviewed. Quotes can be directly or indirectly. For reports to be credible and engaging, direct and indirect quotes are required.
a direct quote is the actual spoken words of people interviewed:
    "I was employed my whole life," said John Doe, 41, retrenched workers.
an indirect quote is a paraphrase or rephrase writing the actual words spoken by interviewees:
    John Doe, 41, said he was employed his entire life.
Reports Thread have a sentence that links the original topic of the story in different parts of the feature. This is especially useful when there are multiple parts or story points that need to be expanded in various areas značajku.Cilj report themes to draw readers back to the main topic of the story.
reports are usually written with each class by pulling forward the reader to read at the point of closure or conclusion, or instructions on how to continue. It is customary for the end of the story draw readers' attention back to the points that he was told the lead paragraph, but the added knowledge of the subject.

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