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| a short paragraph that helps the reader understand the importance of the news. It provides an opportunity to add more pertinent information than the lead can comfortably hold. |
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| Stories that report on events that have great impact on the audience |
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| A statement outlying favorable characteristics of a person |
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| Sits just below a headline and summarizes the story in 20-50 words. |
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| Allows writers to present a great deal of info to readers |
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| Offering different content at different times of the day |
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| Helps the writer and the reader narrow the focus of the story |
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| Links that direct the reader to a website that provides details |
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| News for print that ends up getting clumped online with a print format instead of online format |
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| Helps breakdown the story into bite-sized chunks |
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| Telling the story from beginning to end |
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| Summarizes the story, gives the ifnormation |
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| Future ramification close |
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| The most common type of ending, it gives the audience a peek into what is likely to happen next |
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| It presents a simple and uncomplicated summary of events of just the facts |
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| Additional information that is related to what's already been reported in the story |
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| When the writer writes to try and anticipate the listener or viewer's next question and answer it in turn |
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| A close designed to leave the audience smiling, it wraps up chronological stories or soft news features |
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| A person that reads the story, typically an announcer |
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| The equivalent of the print second-day lead, begins with the reaction of someone affected by the event |
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| Offers less info than a soft lead and it gives a general sense of a story |
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| The equivalent of the multiple-element lead, can either tie together two or three main ideas in one story |
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| Story written in the format of telling the important information first, followed by interesting and colorful details and it ends with any remaining facts that were not discussed. |
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