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News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used for news reporting in media, such as newspapers, radio and television.
News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, when, where, and why (the Five Ws) and also often how—at the opening of the article. This form of structure is sometimes called the "inverted pyramid", to refer to the decreasing importance of information in subsequent paragraphs.
News stories also contain at least one of the following important characteristics relative to the intended audience: proximity, prominence, timeliness, human interest, oddity, or consequence.
The related term journalese is sometimes used, usually pejoratively,[1] to refer to news-style writing. Another is headlinese.
- ^ Wilson, Kenneth G. (1993). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. New York City: Columbia University Press / MJF Books. "JOURNALESE" entry, p. 260. ISBN 1-56731-267-5.