Format of News | How to Write News in a Proper Format
Of course, untoward incidents are news. People want to know about them. But the news media should be very careful in the context of such incidents otherwise it has been seen on many occasions that such news has given rise to sub-scientific thinking and superstition among the people. It has been seen many times that the news of the birth of a strange child is cut from the context of medical science and presented in a superstitious context. Stories of ghosts and ghosts cannot be story news. News media should also refrain from creating myths of making a person a god.
In this way, any event, idea or problem becomes eligible to make news only when some or all of the above elements are included.
News Writing Process, News Format
The inverted pyramid principle is the basic principle of news writing. This is the simplest, useful and practical principle of news writing. This principle of news writing is just the opposite of the process of story writing. In this, the most important facts or information of an event, idea or problem are told first, whereas in a story or novel, the climax comes last. It is called an inverted pyramid because the most important fact or information comes first while the bottom of the pyramid contains important facts or information. In this style the pyramid is turned upside down. In this, the most important information is at the top of the pyramid and the least important information is at the bottom in descending order.
The news Format written under the inverted pyramid style
The news should write under the inverted pyramid style of news writing is mainly dividing into three parts for the convenience of writing
– the front or intro or lead, the body and the conclusion or conclusion.
In this, both the first and second paragraph are calling before the front or intro news. The cover is the most important part of any news because the most important facts and information has written in it. After this comes the body of news, in which apart from giving information and details in decreasing order of importance, its background has also mentioned. At the very end comes the conclusion or conclusion.
There is no such thing as a conclusion in news writing, nor is it told at the end of the news that the news has ended here.
1. Face or Intro or Lead –
The most important aspect of news writing in the inverted pyramid style is the face writing or intro or lead writing. The front is the first paragraph of the news from where a news story begins. The quality of the news determined on the basis of the face itself.
An ideal cover should contain the most important information of a news and it should not exceed 35 to 50 words in any case,
in a cover mainly six questions are tried to answere –
what happened, with whom happened Where did it happen, when did it happen, why and how did it happen.
It generally believes that an ideal face should give priority to any one face rather than answering all the six questions. With that one type, one or two types can give.
2. Body –
In the inverted pyramid writing style of news writing, the facts mentioned in the face explained and analyzed in the body of the news. The ideal rule of news writing is that a news item should write in such a way that,
if it ends at any point, there should be no such fact in the subsequent paragraph, which will make up the rest of the news.
be more important than The news should be complete, readable and effective at any of its endpoints.
The news body tries to answer two why and how out of six questions.
To know how and why an event happened, an attempt made to explore its background, perspective and its wider context.
It is only through this that the real meaning and impact of a news can clarify.
3. Conclusion or Conclusion –
While concluding the news, it should keep in mind that not only the main facts of that news have come.
But there should also be a synergy between the face and the conclusion of the news,
the facts in the news and its various aspects in such a way Presentation should help the reader to arrive at a decision or conclusion.
4. Language and Style –
It is necessary for the journalist to have knowledge of news writing and editing. A language needs to convey this information to the reader. Usually news people read or listen to, they do not study them. Newspapers are not read with dictionaries in hand. Therefore, the language of the news should be colloquial. Simple language, short sentences and short paragraphs. A journalist should always keep in mind while writing news that even though the readers/consumers of this news are lakhs but in reality one person will use this news alone.
From this point of view,
in mass media, news has written for a large mass community,
but the news writer has to keep a person in the center for those he is writing the message with those he is exchanging messages.
Then the journalist must also know about the language, values, culture, level of knowledge and knowledge of this reader or consumer etc. In this way we can say that this is the best communication situation between the journalist and the reader. Journalist should have complete knowledge about his/her readership community. Actually every word of a news language write for the reader and the news writer should know that when he is using a word, how much his readership is aware of it and how much is not.
For example of News Format
if a journalist is writing news for an English economic newspaper like ‘Economic Times’, then he knows what kind of people read this newspaper. What is their language, what are their values, what are their needs, what do they understand and what are they not? There may be many words which not necessary to explain to the readers of ‘Economic Times’ but if the same words used in ‘Navbharat Times’ then they may need to explain
because the readers of ‘Navbharat Times’ are different.
come from a social group. There may be many words that readers of Navbharat Times are aware of,
but these when used in ‘Economic Times’ may need to explain as the social,
cultural and educational background of that readership community is different.
Many words used freely in the English language
Many words used freely in the English language, whereas the mood of Hindi language is not to see such abusive words in the media, no matter how much they used in conversation. The sensitivities of the reader or consumer group also took into account in the selection of language and content and special care took in publishing or disseminating such information which has a negative impact on our social unity.
The news writer should have a smooth command over the language. Along with having a command over the language, he should also know what kind of audience his audience is. Different types of news in a newspaper show different levels of language. The nature of the language of crime news is not the same as that of the language of sports news. But one thing they have in common is that in all types of news, direct, simple and understandable language used. Secondly, the news writer should determine the area of his specialty. With this, it becomes familiar with the vocabulary related to that particular subject and keeps on creating new words when needed.
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