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Writing For Print Media

The document discusses various styles of writing for print media, including news and non-news styles. For news writing, it describes the inverted pyramid, hourglass, and chronological order styles. The inverted pyramid places the most important information at the top and is the most commonly used. The hourglass combines elements of the inverted pyramid and chronological styles. It then discusses various non-news writing styles like prose, poetry, letters, articles, essays, features, opinions, interviews and drama.

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Writing For Print Media

The document discusses various styles of writing for print media, including news and non-news styles. For news writing, it describes the inverted pyramid, hourglass, and chronological order styles. The inverted pyramid places the most important information at the top and is the most commonly used. The hourglass combines elements of the inverted pyramid and chronological styles. It then discusses various non-news writing styles like prose, poetry, letters, articles, essays, features, opinions, interviews and drama.

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WRITING FOR PRINT MEDIA

News and Non-news


By
Dr. Chetna Bhatia
WRITING FOR PRINT MEDIA:
News
By
Dr. Chetna Bhatia
News: concept and writing
• Refer to class notes
STYLES OF WRITING NEWS STORY
• Inverted Pyramid
• Hourglass
• Chronological order
INVERTED PYRAMID
Characteristics of Inverted Pyramid
• Most frequently used way of news writing
• Most important to least important
• Easy to remove lower part of copy as per the
space available
• Suitable for busy readers by giving essence of
story in first paragraph only
• Important to mention 5W1H in first paragraph
• Flexible to expand also, if required
• Pyramid style was used previously for news
writing
• Inverted pyramid helps newspapers in putting
many stories on front page
• Easy for reporters to write in a simple order
• Straightforward words should be used
• This style of newsw writing demands objectivity
and accuracy from the reporter / editor working
on a news copy
HOURGLASS STYLE
Characteristics of Hourglass style
• Combination of inverted pyramid and pyramid
• This style of news writing establishes the
essence in first two paras and then explains
the same in more details
• Generally used in writing sports and business
news
• At times, things get repeated in the
beginning , middle or end part of the story
• This format needs more space for the story
• Not suitable for front page where too many
stories compete to get space
• Whole story is written according to the interest of
readers in such stories
• Such stories are not easy to edit
• Such stories are beneficial for both kind of
readers-those who are in hurry and those who
have more time to read as well
• The art of this format lies in identifying only
those details that would interest the reader
• Such kind of writing takes long effort on the
part of reporter/editor
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
• Chronological order can be from past to present
in terms of years or in terms of changes in a
phenomenon
• For example- series of terroridt attack on a
specific place since last 10 or 15 years
• For example- time wise graphic display of a train
accident that crossed various locations and
stations at different times
• Such format consumes a lot of space
• Such format generally focuses on the history of
some phenomenon or event or practice or
achievement as well
• For example- stories on life history of some
personality , history of Tsunami occurrence in the
last 10 years etc.
• Such stories are not easy to edit
• This format is used as per requirement of any
news on any page
• Such format helps in clearing the context of
the story to the readers
• Such format adds archival value to news as
part of history or story behind a phenomenon
• It requires research and precision on the part
of both reporter and writer
• For example- feature on a popular monument
in delhi
WRITING FOR PRINT MEDIA:
Non-news

by
Dr. Chetna Bhatia
WRITING FOR PRINT MEDIA:
Non-news
• Prose
• Poetry
• Letter
• Article
• Essay
• Feature
• Opinion piece/ editorial
• interview
a. Poetry
Poetry
• Detail points in class lecture
b. Essay
• Detail points in class lecture
c. Letter
Letter writing
• Detail points in class lecture
d. Article
• Detail points in class lecture
Feature
• Detail points in class lecture
e. Feature
f. Story
• Detail points in class lecture ( same as
narrative writing)
g. Drama
• Detail points in class lecture

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