Saturday, February 15, 2014
Intro to Journalism
When I was seventeen, I took an Intro to Journalism class at the local university (called University of Southwestern Louisiana at that time). Two traditions of good reporting taught by the professor remain imbedded in my mind: 1) The first sentence of a news story should contain what, when, and where. 2) News stories stick to facts; conjecture and opinions are permitted only in editorials, columns, and some feature stories where it's made clear these reflect the viewpoint of the reporter or columnist.
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That first tradition perhaps contained a fourth W : who, what, where and when.
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