Writing a story for web car
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This document provides guidance on writing stories for the web. It outlines seven deadly sins to avoid such as pride, apathy, and ignorance. It also describes steps for story-building such as listening to find the story, determining where it's likely to be found, and specifying the field. The document discusses the invisible web that search engines don't index and recommends using primary search engines to locate databases and then search within those databases. It also covers different types of stories, structures, leads, and endings to use when writing for the web.
Writing a story for web car
- 1. Writing a story for Web By Anna Poludenko
- 2. Ill have my article pulled together in no time
- 3. The Seven Deadly Sins 1. Pride 2. Rush 3. Comprehensive search VS focus 4. Apathy 5. Dont use the same source for every search 6. Dont be narrow minded 7. Ignorance
- 4. Story-building Steps 1. Listen to find the story (listen VS monitor?) 2. Where is it likely to be? 3. What search tool might provide it? (search engines, subject directories) 4. Specify the field
- 5. I FAILED TO SEE HOW FILMING A CAT MAKES ME A CITIZEN JOURNALIST
- 6. The Invisible or Cloaked Web Search engine index less than 10% of the web. Google less than 6% of all available.
- 7. Use primary search engines to locate the database (I want jobs in Honolulu) Search within those database.
- 8. Writing= story telling Hard news - event driven Profile microcosmos Trend stories light features, hard news, soft news changes in demographics. Opinion reviews, editorial, columns people from the community who has something interesting.
- 9. Structure I 1. The Inverted Pyramid - most important - details later - critics
- 10. II Top (lead hard news) Transition Typical chronicle Narrative
- 11. III The anecdotal lead - mini-story
- 12. REPORTING
- 13. Lead Intrigue! Straight, Feature Dangerous Prohbited
- 14. Straight Summarize the information. Quick into the story. Blind drop important details but leave something the most important. The basic building block but doesnt have to be boring. Which details to use in the first paragraph and which to skipp.
- 15. Feature Anecdotal quick story that demonstrates. Narrative give a sense of a place people Scene-setter description of where the event is taking place. Significant detail. Word play.
- 16. Dangerous The story is supposed to answer the questions not ask them. - Mishandle the question - the quote - the topic - Ineffective quotes to loose its power. -General description
- 17. Prohibited Leads They are heeeere Its official He leaned back in his chair The dictionary definition.
- 18. Nut graph The main theme statement of the story : here is what my story is about to get my information out straight forward. Followed by paragraphs that answer key questions
- 19. Transition Signals that the story is moving from one point to another
- 20. The three-legged stool Statistics Example Quote
- 21. Ending Circling back Looking forward