Chapter Six Reflections

Some of the aspects in chapter six that seemed to be the most useful in the first paper were:

• Newsworthiness
• Various research paths
• News story pyramid
• Difference between facts and opinion

Considering that the newsworthiness of the paper is basically what will even allure someone into reading it at all, I believe that it is very important to have a topic that people can find interesting and/or relate to.

Having many different paths of research available to you is a valuable element in writing a news story.  A wide variety of sources including different opinions, quotes, and facts, is always a great help and a good culmination of a group of informations, rather than from a single source.

The news story pyramid looks at the body of a news story in a visual aspect.  The pyramid, which is upside-down, begins with the summary in the widest part, following with the most important details, facts, and quotations as it narrows down, and the least important details are just kinda chillin down at the bottom point, being the end of the story.

The difference between facts and opinions is essential to a news story.  Using opinions in a news story is like biting into an apple and having it taste like a peanut.  It’s just totally weird and wrong.  When someone’s reading a news article and at some point the writer says what he thinks, the person reading it *might* find it interesting, but what will really stick with him/her is the facts - what, where, when, how many, to what extent, etc.

I didn’t really find any of these concepts very new to me, except for the news story pyramid.