News

Anything that’s not straight news, editorial or sport. Gives a human dimension to the news Responds to the reader’s curiosity while entertaining at the same time Truth and accuracy are still Important Can’t tolerated ” NOT Inverted pyramid style Sub-stories of the news Skills similar to fiction writers Narrates that keeps the readers absorbed Brings out the drama of people’s lives Know which details to highlight Vivid descriptions -Colorful dialogue -Humor Begins with an anecdote -memorable ending A nut graph rather than a lead Feature writing tells the reader a story.

It has a beginning (lead), middle and end. It uses quote liberally (It mean generously If you’re too lazy to search It up) and allows the reader to see the story through detailed description and vivid writing. Topic-Background inf001nterview0Expert testimony 1) Lead: Most interesting information. Something that will grab the reader’s attention and drag them into the story. 2) Nut Graph: A summary of what the story is going to be about. Why the story is important 3) Direct quote: Connects to the nut graph. Use more than one sentence. Direct quotes should show emotion of the story 4)

Transition: Next important fact. Use transition words to help the story flow. They can be facts, indirect facts indirect quotes or partial quotes 5) Direct quote: Connects to the nut graph. Use more than one sentence. Direct quotes should show emotion of the story 6) Transition: Next important fact. Use transition words to help the story flow. They can be facts, indirect facts indirect quotes or partial quotes 7) Direct quote: Connects to the nut graph. Use more than one sentence. Direct quotes should show emotion of the story Types of Feature Stories: Concentrate on the business owner

Look for their competitions If there’s no info, concentrate on how they started business. Should not be written like an advertisement B) The commemorative story Pegged to the anniversary of an earlier news event Written at the 1st anniversary Interview people who was involved in the story (e. G anniversary of the death of Kennedy) C) The Explanatory story Very detailed Requires saturation research C) The first-person story Something dramatic happens to the writer Story with I or you is used in a suspenseful event D) The historical story Loosely pegged to a breaking news event

Writers research in the library Show readers how their community would changed E) The Hobbyist story Make sure you’re writing about the biggest or the best unusual collection in your area Talk to other collectors F) How-to story Interview with 1 or more experts who advise the reader how to accomplish a tricky task Timeless article but could be pegged to a season G) The invention story Good feature material Inventor will not usually give interviews unless they know their idea is protected Timing is the key. Talk about an invention H) The medical story Medical breakthrough story

The struggle to overcome illness l) The number story: Interviews with experts and a familiar # “10 ways to deliver baby.. ” Or “10 restaurants in NYC you must go W’ J) The odd- occupation story Find a person with a weird Job such like a window washer for skyscrapers Basically a profile but about a weird Job K) Review Book, restaurant You need to be an expert to know this topic L) Trend Silly ban, fashion trends Examines something that is a trend in society Begins with examples M) The service article Provides service to reader Help readers cope with problems in life

N) The overview story Overview of a problem Statistics with expert, humanistic qualities O) The participatory story First hand knowledge You go and try it yourself and basically “participate” in it P) The Profile Story Profile any one Pick someone of interest, ask for interview, research Groups, institutions, events, things Q) The Unfamiliar visitor story: Offer unique insight of a problem, culture, or event through a eyes of a person E. G bombing in airport, interview Arab student R) Catalogs List things but not in numerical order but Just in a list S) Interview story

Subject be a person of interest Written in 3rd person Includes direct or indirect Feature leads Delayed- withholds essential information for a few paragraphs Descriptive (situation lead or anecdotal lead)- paints a word portrait of a person, group, place or event Direct address- “you” involves reader Expression lead- use proverbs, mottos First person lead-using “I” Freak lead- are rare, includes definition, fragments, poetry, puns. Short words. Question lead: Last resort; should be avoided Quotation lead; direct, indirect, or partial quotation. Tied to some sort of description f the person.

Relationship lead- most common feature article lead. Describe cause and effect Surprise lead- astonished, punch, or cartridge lead. Shocks the reader and will only be clear after they read the body. Summary lead- sums up in a few sentences How to write the body of the story Transitionolinkingobridge word Words that connect- e. G. Also, and, another, besides Bridge words- are words that are the identical or synonymous. Sentences that bridge- Sentences has to be moved around so that the passage would make sense. Writing Gremlins Long paragraphs Weak verbs Wordiness Jargon-

Crimson’s essay “Lets Stop Scaring Ourselves” makes readers think twice at any time they hear of an issue that may affect them. Coercion reasons that people will often scare themselves whenever they hear of an issue that will upset their lives. Coercion starts his essay by declaring that when the scientists were predicting the world to experience global cooling rather than global warming. Then follows with how the world was to suppose to have ended. In the duration of his essay he pronounces a sense of miscalculations from people who’ve made predictions about owe our world will end or be destroyed.

Coercion states that these predictions terrified people making them believe we would have global cooling, experience a decline In the population and experience brain damage using cell phones. Coercion conserves that people live In a state of panic whenever we hear news that could possibly change our world. During the essay Coercion uses YAK as an example of how computer specialists predicted that the stock market would crash and airplanes would fall out of the sky. When this news arose people cashed out here savings and money market accounts and then in the end nothing changed.

Crimson’s essay uses ample numbers of examples to show how different cases can cause one to scare or frighten there self’s. Providing examples helped prove his argument that people will often scare themselves with real life situations. He proves to the readers with examples from global warming and cooling, to the world starving to death, and even the world running out of supplies. When people hear about these issues they acknowledge it is scary to hear about nevertheless often things get out of reapportion and an issue that may not be a big one will turn into one.

Issues today often get tossed way out of proportion. When we hear of something that will hurt us we will freak out and stop doing whatever that is or don’t do it at all. Coercion mentions in his essay that he read an article about an issue of cell phones causing brain damage. We have seen and heard of this before. In an article by the university of Wisconsin-Madison they found that cell phone usage does not affect brain damage or create brain tumors.

There are numerous articles that support this Information, all you have to do is look for it and not Just believe the first misinformed bit of news you hear. I believe everyone scares themselves with the news they hear from friends, social media, their surroundings, and Fox. It is hard to believe or trust anything we see on TV or the news now a day. Scare tactics have been used to control the populous of the world since the beginning of time, not only by evil men but our own government as well.

We need to not trust or believe every bit of news we hear room so called “creditable sources” and take the time and put the effort upon ourselves to Investigate news that could affect our own lives. Lets stop scaring are self’s By pilgrim decline in the population and experience brain damage using cell phones. Coercion conserves that people live in a state of panic whenever we hear news University of Wisconsin-Madison they found that cell phone usage does not affect information, all you have to do is look for it and not Just believe the first misinformed ourselves to investigate news that could affect our own lives.

The teacher as a hero Lessons Planned from the teacher’s pen.  There are heroes and heroes, national and local. Some of them are born, others are made. Many are still living while many others have long been gone. It is to the latter that monuments and museums were built to keep alive their memory in our hearts and mind. Public buildings, parks and plazas, streets and a few provinces have been named after them. Important dates and events are usually marked red in the calendar to remind us of their birth or death anniversary.

During the celebration of these events, program speakers take turns extolling to high heavens whatever good they had done for the country. Sad enough the hero who is apparently taken for granted and therefore unsung is the poor teacher. Not having a pedigreed name, she has no influence, no power. She is regarded as belonging to the marginalized sector of society. Tactless people look down on her with contempt saying, “She’s only a teacher. ” After all, unlike OFWs, teachers do not contribute to the national economy. What many do not seem to realize is that a teacher is truly a hero in her own way. For a teacher is not only about her lesson plans, her teaching methods, strategies and techniques. A teacher is also about her personal character, her values and her attitude. And more importantly a teacher is also about her missionary work which entails a great deal of sacrifice on her part and her family. Indeed, the pro-bono services that she renders involve numerous risks to life and limb.

We have heard of teachers who were kidnapped for ransom, forced into marriage under pain of bodily harm, physically abused and the unfortunate, even beheaded. I remember a male teacher who reprimanded a student for provoking trouble in class. That afternoon the huffy father with fire in his eyes sought the teacher in school and mercilessly hacked him to death. I had a relative who was summoned to the Comelec office in Manila and made to explain her inadvertence to affix her signature on a pair of election forms. The financially distressed teacher was forced to take a long-term loan which she used to pay for her transportation fare, board and lodging while in Manila. In the meantime her family had to be sparing and frugal in order to tide them over until such period that the loan was fully paid. While other government employees are off after five, the teacher spends long hours of work at home writing lesson plans, checking test papers or preparing visual aids and similar teaching devices.

Compared to those who work in the comfort of their office, thousands of our teachers go on long hours of journey to their far-flung stations over hill and dale, many times in harsh weather condition. It is no wonder that many of these teachers become decrepit long before their age or they get pitifully sick before retirement from the service. And yet their take-home pay is a mere pittance. Any increase in their starvation salary comes far apart and in trickles because this is dependent upon the members of Congress who remember the teachers only on election time. Come May of next year teachers will again be called upon to man the electoral ramparts of our democracy. They will be there to help safeguard the sanctity of the ballot, armed only with the nobility and integrity of their profession. Whatever people say to the contrary, the teacher as a hero is ready to lay down her life for the sake of country sans a loud flourish of trumpets. I salute our teachers as heroes, living or dead.

Unknown to many, Facebook is the largest news aggregator on the planet right now. This means more people use Facebook to read about news, than any other news platform. However, it’s not to say that the website that people use to browse memes and funny cat videos is the largest source to know about the world around us – it’s the way Facebook has been revamping the way people receive news on its platform. The concept of trending is a popular way to keep track on news on both Twitter, as well as Facebook. Also, Facebook uses a very clean and sophisticated way of placement of the foresaid news on the right side of the homepage.

What’s the background?

Allegedly, Facebook fired a large chunk of entire editorial team that is responsible to check the tiny amount of text that appears under the trending category to tell readers the reason certain keywords are trending, or explain the keywords in a few words. Around 15-18 editors were fired according to unconfirmed rumors. We need to remember that back in May, a US Senate committee had alleged that Facebook manipulated it’s Facebook trends to soothe conservative users, as well as, artificially inject left-wing news topics, including the Black Lives Matter movement for those users that may be more suited to read such news. Naturally, Facebook said it found no evidence of these allegations.

What happened now?

In a move to reduce human impact on what’s trending, Facebook has automated some algorithms that will decide what’s trending – thus removing the human element in deciding the same.  You’ll just see the keyword of what’s trending, and not a human written summary/ explanation of what it is and why it’s trending.

What’s good about it?

For starters, lesser human involved in deciding what’s trending means, that there’s significantly reduced chances of bias.

Secondly, there would be raw decisions based solely on numbers, not hiding what’s considered unsafe for a targeted audience. Facebook trends would showcase a real image to its users.

Trends would still be personalized on the basis the pages you like and locations.

This removes the chances of error in someone typing out the details about the trends, because now you can just browse through what actual users have written on a topic, instead of some editors deciding it on behalf of Facebook.

What’s bad about it?

Facebook has essentially shrugged of the fractionally small amount of original content it was generating. By removing a 25-odd word summary of the trending topic, now everything on Facebook is entirely user created content services. It wouldn’t have hurt Facebook to contribute a bit of its own take on a topic either.

The new style just looks extremely bland. Users unintentionally end-up reading about trending news topics before – now only those topics that interest a user would be clicked.

A lot of sentimental insult has been portrayed by firing journalists by saying that they can’t even write 25 words. That needs to be corrected.

What do you think of the move? Do you like the new trends or hate it? Let us know in the comments on our official Facebook page

I have chosen two newspaper articles from the Courier Mall and the New York Times which express their very contrasting opinions about the Bola epidemic currently happening in West Africa, one saying Bola Is out of control about and the there saying Bola Is nothing to worry about. The first article titled Bola vellums’ bodies left to rot in the street as crawls worsens and has many examples of language features throughout the article. The Journalist has used emotive language towards the Bola virus which Is almost entirely negative.

Examples of this would be words such as “crisis worsens” In the heading, “a country struggling to cope with the deadly virus” and “fear for their own health”. By using such negative and emotive language the journalist can position the audience to feel the same way as the people in Africa do I. . Make them feel scared and fear the Bola virus. Another example of language features used in article 1 is word play-at the end of the news article it is written “The WHO has convened a special summit of international experts in Geneva to determine if the outbreak constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern. If so, WHO will recommend temporary measures to reduce the international spread of the disease. ” What the journalist is basically trying to say is that the WHO or World Health Organization is doing nothing about the Bola breakout in Africa and he is asking ho will take measures to stop the disease. This word play is used to again make the reader feel scared because it means that the Bola virus may be an international threat if the Who approves it.

The Journalist has chosen certain visuals which can influence the audience’s perspectives on the Bola virus. By using an image of an Bola victim lying dead on the ground the Journalist can do an effective job of positioning the reader to feel disgusted with the virus and also make them feel horrified. The Journalist has not only used this picture of the body because of what’s In the foreground but also because what can be seen in the background Including children looking at the corpse and people running away from the body.

The children looking at the victim’s body simply adds the disgust and horrified emotion that the reader Is already experiencing and the people fleeing away from the body Is Implying that they are scared of and fear the virus which makes the reader feel the same way. The journalist who wrote the second article titled Why Bola Is nothing to worry about has shown many uses of language features In his writing. First he has used motive language in a positive way to position the reader to agree with the title.

He does this by using facts and words Like “unlikely to spread”, “let’s worry less” and “vanishingly unlikely to break out”. The Journalist has purposely used these words to position the reader to worry less about Bola and think on the bright side. Another Language feature used in the news article Is Sarcasm. In the first line the Journalist has written “We’re now witnessing the worst Bola epidemic ever -? and on your list that Bola is something to worry about. This makes the reader think that the idea of Bola being out of control is a Joke and that it is nothing to worry about.

The last language feature used in the news article is In the second news article it can be seen that the Journalist has chosen a picture which he believes will also position the reader to feel a certain way. He has chosen a picture a Doctor who worked in West Africa and contracted the virus and survived. It can be seen in the picture that Dry. Kent Vibrantly has a stern or angry look on his face. This tells the audience that Bola is nothing to worry about because if a doctor can contract Bola and survive then it is to as serious as it has been thought.

A bar also known as a club or a pub etc is a business that sells drink, especially alcoholic beverages. Normally it is at a venue where the bar has a raised counter usually made of wood with stools or chairs for customers, a large area for dance. A stage maybe for its performers and chairs and tables situated around the room for socialising. When music, singing and dancing are the main attraction (basically providing entertainment) they are called night clubs or dance clubs.

Bars became popular in the 1920’s when people will go and see their favourite performers’ in action, dance clubs featuring light and special effects became popular later on in the disco craze of the 1970’s. They are often open until the early hours of the morning. Sounds a lot like the forum don’t it but perhaps with just a little bit of information missing “After the night has ended and the performances are done, you’ll see a gang of students pissed out of their heads, man – handling themselves in order to win a silly fight!”

The words of 18 year old Stephanie Awua. Not to long ago, Stephanie and a couple of friends had a night out to the forum in which a fight broke out, no one was badly injured but clothes were torn and scars were made. From what she remembers, “Two girls thought they’ll be brave and come up to one of my flat mate’s boyfriend, started arguing and one of the girls decided to slap him. Because he’s a guy he can’t hit a girl so he put his girlfriend in front and she did the slapping.

Security stopped it and what not but it got taken outside, the two girls called ‘their people’ (a bunch of guys) and there was us, all hell broke loose” Despite the hard efforts of numerous security guards, the ‘all too famous’ forum may have become the place to be when looking for a good fight. There have been an increasing number of fights between students at the forum, some of which involve the police. “The police weren’t called this time because the security guards stopped it in time but my flat mate managed to somehow pull a ligament or something in her arm but that is because she fell … I remember one of the girls who started it got her dress torn as well”

Many people will say the forum is there as a socialising venue, somewhere you can go meet new people but enjoy good quality music, see great performers, have a few drinks, maybe a dance basically just get entertained, fair enough but if this venue is constantly acting as a fighting arena for students, it can’t be worth having; the safety and welfare of the students are the main priorities. Stephanie says “Okay, you’re finally a student, in uni, over the 18 years age limit and have the freedom to go anywhere. No silly curfews, no begging for money and with nothing to do on a Tuesday night … the forum sounds pretty good right? Yeah, of course, there’s a bar with good prices. The music’s good, there’s a wide variety; loads of different artist have come down. They do great theme nights as well, like the school uniform one I went to last Monday, you’ve just got to behave yourself”

So how exactly do we get students to ‘behave themselves’, before entering the forum students are already stopped and searched, bags are also searched too. Security is in place within the rooms of the forum itself, inside and out, what else can be done? “I think the problem lies with the drinking, people change into different people when they drink, am not really a drinker myself so I notice these things … maybe bar monitors should be introduced, they stand at the bar and basically monitor how much you drink. If you look like you can’t take anymore, they refuse to let you buy another drink … better to have students tipsy rather than drunk.” Bar monitors as suggested by Stephanie don’t seem too bad; in bringing the forum back to its soul purpose (entertainment) new ideas are more than welcomed.

Marketing an online startup naturally includes a social media element, but if you don’t have key influencers on your side, growth isn’t going to happen quickly. How do new businesses get hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers and Facebook likes? Sometimes they buy them from a broker — but that tactic is highly deceptive. There are companies to which you can pay a fee and then have thousands of Twitter followers magically appear overnight, but then all you have at the end of the day is a big number, a thinner wallet and thousands of irrelevant followers who don’t care what you say and will never buy what you’re selling.

Business coaches and marketing gurus will always give the same piece of advice to those just starting out, and that is to engage with social media influencers. Those are people like fashion blogger , who with more than half-a-million Twitter followers (and some absolutely gorgeous photos on her Twitter feed), commands a great deal of attention.

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And that’s great advice — if you can get a half dozen Twitter divas to talk about your product, you’ll have a great start. But what those business coaches fail to tell you is those Twitter divas have probably never heard of you, don’t care about you, and are besieged with hundreds of requests from other people who have something far more interesting to talk about.

So how do you get social media stars to pay attention to you?

Startup entrepreneur Aaron Leupp was lucky enough to do just that. So how did a young concert promoter from L.A. get the attention of someone like Crystal Hefner?

From part-time promoter to full-time influencer.

While attending USC, Aaron picked up extra money as a club promoter. He made it his business to know all the cool people, but he wasn’t afraid to reach out to the ones he didn’t know. “Years ago when I was doing music events, I had to get a lot of people to this venue,” he recalls. “Uber was just starting out and they had a deal that if you referred a friend, they could get a discount and you would get ride credit. I put that all over the fliers and promotion materials and I got people out to the event with free rides. We had so much success with that, we went to Uber and asked them to give us cash instead of credit and they bought the idea. It was great, because after all, you can only use so many ride credits.”

From that simple idea, Aaron launched , which promotes clients like Uber by working with social media influencers and on-the-street promoters to talk about the service and offer free promo codes on their social channels. The influencers get a cut of the profits, and incorporate casual mentions into their feeds. The results have been astounding, with one top 21-year-old affiliate making $4,500 a month just passing out cards on the street every day and social influencers on major platforms like YouTube hitting even bigger numbers.

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His company was one of those rare, unintentional successes. He was a club promoter, and Promo Affiliates rose out of a basic idea to get more people to a nightclub and Aaron’s willingness to step out of his comfort zone and reach out to celebrities and influencers to get them on board.

Clients like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are recognizing that clever television ads only go so far and they have to hit the social networks to get the numbers they need for growth — and Aaron is just the guy to help them do it. What those marketers have realized is that just starting a Twitter account and posting every day isn’t enough. Buying fake followers is a failed strategy. And to really get results, you have to have real followers — and some of those followers have to be influencers. “It’s essential to go outside of your immediate circle of friends when building your social platforms,” said Aaron. “Having all of your high school friends following your Twitter feed can only go so far, unless you happened to go to school with celebrities, so you have to take that extra step and reach out to the people who matter most.”

The social media mentions do work — and the key is that they are unobtrusive, organic to the conversation, and the exact opposite of in-your-face advertising that millennials have come to loathe. Crystal’s Uber mention is certainly hard to resist.

Connecting with the big influencers.

Aaron says that building that network of influencers involves two steps — first, getting the attention of the influencers and once they see you, then you have to convince them to take action. Getting their attention isn’t always easy — and the most straightforward way is simply to engage them directly on their social media sites, share their posts and offer insightful comments, but that’s only the beginning.

When building that network, take advantage of your location. Aaron was lucky enough to be in Los Angeles, home to movie stars and other glamorous people. Although Aaron doesn’t hang out in the Playboy Mansion and pal around with Mr. and Mrs. Hefner, he was able to use his word-of-mouth network to reach the big influencers. “Hit them up directly through their channels, but don’t limit your tactics to just posting,” said Aaron. “We’ve had the most success in person.”Of course, there’s no better incentive than cold, hard cash. Running social media accounts when you have a hundred followers is easy — but running a Twitter account where hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people read what you have to say every day is hard work and those influencers are looking for ways to monetize that hard work.

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Most importantly, building a social network to promote your company’s offering isn’t just a matter of posting every day and waiting for people to follow you. Jump in, reach out and connect with the biggest influencers you can find and go out of your comfort zone. Use your word-of-mouth network, reach out in person whenever possible. Aesop may have wisely said “slow and steady wins the race,” but that doesn’t apply to the fast-paced world of social-media driven online companies.