ABSTRACT

We are going to be very busy in this chapter as we build on our basic knowledge of writing for online and print.

We are going to look at the cycle that any given story follows, and how to report on it on all the platforms at our disposal – from the first breaking-news ticker or tweet through online updates and on to in-depth reporting, comment and analysis in print. While we’ll be focusing

primarily on text, the other media cannot now be separated from our reporting, so they find their way in here too, as well as being covered in their own dedicated chapters following this one.