ABSTRACT
Editors realize that audience members have considerable control over their news and entertainment diets and will actively choose how to spend their time in a media-rich, competitive environment. Research by the Poynter Institute shows that readers enjoy multiple entry points; they like the spontaneity of starting anywhere they wish in a package. Creating these graphics requires considerable time and imagination on the part of editors. Longer stories use a narrative line or a major theme to organize shorter sections that present action, drama, dialogue, descriptive scenes and developed characters. Editors at all types of print and online publications can place graphic items near the part of the narrative they are intended to enhance. The fundamentals of working with wire, feature or news service stories include processing large numbers of stories, weighing their varying viewpoints, highlighting local connections, making trims, combining several accounts of an event into a coherent story, creating digests, writing headlines and making corrections for local style.
