Show 5 U G 1 1 pa EST 10 NS 0 H N niev JS I 1 0 SCHOOL LI ra ghen bj 1 alof pi of J ill jensen of B Y U to contestants fol foi reaped prize Profess oi J marinus jensen of the english engli li department of the brigham young one of the judges in the contest content of the three sevier seller district high schools for tho the reaper arze was kind enough to give the following suggestions for news enters which ought to be carefully read and ob ened b those students who ho are arc act iveIN engaged in the of the notes to be published by the reaper he sas gals the function of a news neis story I 1 is to inform it should dri arne a path straight to the readers understanding s the opening paragraph in i news story is called a lead and should give tile the principal facts compactly compact li A topical lead paragraph an answers sers five important questions wha wh 7 9 what when why wh wheres the body of the story follow following xing ing the lead should be simple direct and interesting in style the following suggestions will be helpful to the loung writer put the freshest timeliest tim time eliest list and most interesting features of your story stor firt first dont 0 pad lour our stor strength rather than length is I 1 wanted arv to tell the gist of the news in the first dozen words dont make editorial comment in a news nes story use superlatives super laties sparing sparingly lv boil it down don get a book on news writing krit ing and study it the foll following are good ones harrington Harringto ir writing for print D C heath company blever bleer news neng writing II houghton mifflin co harrington and frankenberg essentials senti als i in journalism ginn S corn com pany |