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Writing Composite Type of News

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Journalism
Quarter 1 - Module 1:
Writing Composite Type of News
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 Table of Contents
What I Need to Know 1
How to Learn from this Learning Package 1
Icons of this Learning Package 1
What I Know 1
Lesson 1:
Writing Different Types of News 1
What’s In 2
What’s New 2
What Is It 2
What’s More 2
What I Have Learned 2
What I Can Do 2
Assessment (Post-Test) 4
Key to Answers 5
References 6
 What I Need to Know

At the end of this module, you should be able to:

 Identify the composite type of news
 Determine the structure of composite story
 Write a composite story

How to Learn from this module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises
diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

Icons of this module

This part contains learning objectives

that
What I Need to Know
are set for you to learn as you go along
the module.

This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
What I Know
meant specifically to gauge prior related
knowledge.

This part connects previous lesson with

What’s In
that of the current one.

An introduction of the new lesson

What’s New through various activities, before it will be
presented to you.
 These are discussions of the activities as
What Is It a way to deepen your discovery and
understanding of the concept.

These are follow-up activities that are

What’s More intended for you to practice further in
order to master the competencies.

Activities designed to process what you

What I Have Learned
have learned from the lesson.

These are tasks that are designed to

showcase your skills and knowledge
What I Can Do
gained, and applied into real-life
concerns and situations.
 What I Know

(Pretest)
Read each statement carefully and select the best answer.
1. This type of story/news covers two or more divergent aspects of a news topic that
are drawn together for the sake of space and coherence.
a. follow-up news c. composite news
b. investigative news d. in-depth news
2. This story/news which is written so that you can report more of a story which has
already been published or broadcast.
a. follow-up news c. composite news
b. investigative news d. in-depth news
3. This is the story's point or theme, most often expressed in the lead of the article.
a. angle c. summary
b. topic d. body
4. This is the opening paragraph and the most important part of a news story.
a. headline c. body
b. lead d. conclusion
5. This is the text indicating the nature of the article.
a. headline c. body
b. lead d. conclusion
6. This is the news that takes place within the country.
a. foreign news c. local news
b. dateline news d. national news
7. This is the news that takes place outside the country.
a. foreign news c. local news
b. dateline news d. national news
Read each statement carefully. Write True if the statement is correct and False if not.
8. Composite story is a follow-up story from a previous news report.
9. Composite story is a multiple-angle story.
10. Composite story ends in a tie-in with a past story
 Lesson

1 Writing Composite Type of News

What’s In

News, as previously discussed in Journalism 7, is an essay of facts that basically

informs. It is a wise storytelling of any event from everywhere else that has impact to
readers.
Write down the different types of news that you can remember.

Types
of News

Apart from the above mentioned types of news, there are other types of news
that pertain to the way they are written. These are:
1. Composite news story
2. In-depth news story
3. Investigative news story
 What’s New

The Composite Type of News

In a composite story, two or more divergent aspects of a news topic are drawn
together for the sake of space and coherence. In structure, the composite story may
resemble that of a follow-up story (a story that takes off from previous news reports
and looks at the story from another angle, another source, or simply updates the
reader with the development of the story) in that both of them aim to consolidate
component parts. However, they differ in the sense that the follow-up story ends in a
tie-in with a past story; whereas, the composite story is composed of units, each one
made up of fresh spot news frequently with reference to the future.
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Sample Composite Story

OSMENA HIGH JOINS ANTI-CRIME DRIVE

Osmena High School has joined the anti-crime drive launched by the
Peace and Order Council of the city government.
The staff of The New Horizons joined a rally called by the Editor’s
Guild of the Division of City Schools, Manila; the Student Council
organized a local peace assembly; and the Hi-Y Organization launched
an anti-smut campaign.
The student editors marched to Liwasang Bonifacio to denounce the
police department for “being unmindful of the schools’ security from bad
elements molesting students.”
The Student Council, supported by 20 presidents of homeroom
organizations surveyed the community for the possible existence of dope
pushers, extortionists, and vandals.
The Hi-Yers, on the other hand, launched an anti-smut campaign and
burned pornographic literature and obscene pictures which they
confiscated from students.
“Different kinds of crimes are being perpetrated right under the very
noses of policemen, but they seem to blind to all of these,” said the
editors.
“Dope pushers invade school premises; extortionists waylay students
in the streets, and vandals destroy school property,” lamented the student
leaders.
“Instead of reading their books and studying their lessons, many
students read dirty literature from magazines bought from nearby stores,”
complained the Hi-Yers.
Meanwhile, the student editors decided to write a pooled editorial to be
published on their respective school organs to denounce the “inefficiency
of the police in curbing theft, pickpocketing and snatching which have
become rampant” in schools, especially in the university belt.
The Student Council planned to hold a symposium on crime
prevention while the Hi-Y organization, a seminar on leadership training.

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 What Is It

Compare and contrast composite story and follow-up story using the Venn diagram.

Composite Follow-up

What’s More

Go back to the sample composite story and identify/label its structure.

Lead Angle

Summary
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Summary
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More
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More
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What I Have Learned

In your portfolio (or digital portfolio), clip and mount three composite news from
different newspapers or news website. Choose one from these news articles and
identify/label its structure.

What I Can Do

Write a composite story about the recent activity in school.

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Assessment: (Post-Test)

Read each statement carefully and select the best answer.

1. This type of story/news covers two or more divergent aspects of a news topic that
are drawn together for the sake of space and coherence.
a. follow-up news c. composite news
b. investigative news d. in-depth news
2. This story/news which is written so that you can report more of a story which has
already been published or broadcast.
a. follow-up news c. composite news
b. investigative news d. in-depth news
3. This is the story's point or theme, most often expressed in the lead of the article.
a. angle c. summary
b. topic d. body
4. This is the opening paragraph and the most important part of a news story.
a. headline c. body
b. lead d. conclusion
5. This is the text indicating the nature of the article.
a. headline c. body
b. lead d. conclusion
6. This is the news that takes place within the country.
a. foreign news c. local news
b. dateline news d. national news
7. This is the news that takes place outside the country.
a. foreign news c. local news
b. dateline news d. national news
Read each statement carefully. Write True if the statement is correct and False if not.
8. Composite story is a follow-up story from a previous news report.
9. Composite story is a multiple-angle story.
10. Composite story ends in a tie-in with a past story

Identify the Structure of Composite Story.

11. ___________________

12. _____________________

13. _________
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14. _____________

15. _____________
Key to Answers
1. c
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. a
6. d
7. a
8. True
9. True
10. False
11. Lead Angels
12. Summary of Other Angels
13 Detail of Lead Angels
14. More Details
15. More Details
References
Bulusan, Ferdinand. 2016. Campus Journalism within your reach. Quezon City:
Lorimar Publishing, Inc.
Khan, Rachel, E. 2010. Campus Journalism. Mandaluyong City: Anvil Publishing,
Inc.
Palanca, Charito, P. and Socorro D. Vatomme. 2010. Journalism for Campus
Writers. Makati City: Eureka Scholastic Publishing, Inc.