ABSTRACT
The Inverted Pyramid and Beyond This chapter introduces you to how to write some basic news stories suitable for print journalism in newspapers. Most of the stories we will consider will be written in the inverted pyramid structure, although three kinds of stories follow a slightly different formula. Versions of these newspaper stories would often also be used in online versions of the newspaper, but we will look specifically at writing for online publications in Chapter 13. (Reporting and writing broadcast stories will be covered in Chapters 11 and 12). As you learn to write these basic newspaper stories, keep in mind the news values discussed in Chapter 2, those criteria of newsworthiness that always guide journalists in choosing what readers want and need to know, and help reporters select what information to include in their stories and how to put that information into an inverted pyramid order. Those news values, as you recall, are timeliness, proximity, prominence, consequence, conflict, suspense, human interest, novelty, progress.
