ABSTRACT
Journalism skills fall broadly into two categories: the techniques used to find stories, and the skills to tell those stories effectively. A good journalist needs to develop both those sides of their skillset: after all, a story is only as good as the raw material you have to work with, and there’s no point getting a great scoop if no one wants to read it. The internet has seen a massive expansion of both sets of skills, with many new ways to tell and find stories. As a result, journalists have revisited many of the basic principles of storytelling: the importance of character, setting and movement, for example; and techniques of sequence, editing, and composition. In this chapter we outline some of the techniques that are being used to tell longform, shortform and breaking news stories effectively across different platforms, and the concepts informing the decisions behind those. It takes into account data journalism, aggregation and curation.
