News style (also journalistic style or news writing style) is the prose style used for news reporting in media such as newspapers, radio and television. News style encompasses not only vocabulary and sentence structure, but also the way in which stories present the information in terms of relative importance, tone, and intended audience.
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.
Journalistic prose is explicit and precise, and tries not to rely on jargon. As a rule, journalists will not use a long word when a short one will do. They use subject-verb-object construction and vivid, active prose (see Grammar). They offer anecdotes, examples and metaphors, and they rarely depend on colorless generalizations or abstract ideas. News writers try to avoid using the same word more than once in a paragraph (sometimes called an “echo” or “word mirror”). – Source Wikipedia.
I WUZ JUS INFORMD DAT SECOND LIFE FASHION BLOGGERS SHUD BE WRITIN IN MUTCH MOAR PROFESHUNAL MANNR. NO USE OV SLANG OR ABBREVIASHUNS R APPROPRIATE 4 USE IN DIS LOFTY PROFESHUN. I SAY PULL TEH STICK OUT OV UR ASS AN LIGHTEN UP PEEPS. DIS AR TEH 4 FUN – Y MAK IT ALL SERIOUS. 4 SUM BLOGGIN IZ BOUT HAVIN CERTAIN STYLE AN IF DAT STYLE IZ FULL OV SLANG AN COLLOQUILISMS DAT SO BE IT. WHEN TEH NYTIMEZ CONTACTS ME AN ASKZ ME 2 BLOG PROFESHUNALLY 4 THEM, DEN IM GONNA BECOME MOAR, LULZ, “PROFESHUNAL”. TIL DEN JUS CLOSE TEH PAEG U R HATIN ON AN PROCED 2 TEH NEXT BLOG.
Hey Blog Critics perhaps you should make yourself familiar with the concept of Gonzo Journalism before snubbing your nose at certain bloggers. And if you don’t know what that is perhaps you should google it (nice use of colloquialism there). For me in particular I make grammar mistakes all the time. I misspell words all the time. I may even leave out a word or two as well. My use of punctuation SUCKS! But guess what? I have a bachelors degree and have completed coursework on the masters level in Social Work. I ain’t a dummy but I do make mistakes. I am tired of people in fashion trying to impose standards in regards to what is a good blog: This uppitiness ranges from criticizing their grammar to deleting their blog from a feed because their pictures aren’t good enough. For god’s sake why add them in the first place? Lighten up folks – end this virtual snobbery now! Okay end of rant.
