How to cover Asia News online Story a Few Words of Advice

Do you aspire to become a journalist? The prime question facing countless wannabe media professionals out there is how is a good news story written? There are three basic formulas for news writing irrespective of whether it is report carrying Asia news online, Africa News or America news. While it is not unnatural for styles to vary across stories, certain factors remain uniform. The principal element of writing news features is to cater the news.

• Even people from non journalism backgrounds have seldom missed the 5 Ws of news writing. These W's stand for the Who, What, When, Where and Why that every story needs to address. A lot depends on the story and the use of each of the above W's changes accordingly. For example, if you are writing a story based on latest America news on a major shooting incident the article most likely begins with the location of the mishap (Where) and then proceeds to name the people involved (Who) including both the victims and the offenders.

• It is absolutely essential to ascertain which revelations to make and which to be ignored while penning an article. Now, if there is a train accident in Africa and a series of such Africa news have come up in the recent past, the repetitive occurrence of similar incidents may be feature as the opening point of the story. On the contrary, if it Asia news about the death of a head of the state in a plane crash that claimed other lives too, the prominent name in the list of casualties is what makes the news worth reading.

• The lead, referring to the opening sentence of a news story, is always an essential part of the entire process. One needs to touch the right chord with readers through the lead bang on and give some inkling about what awaits them in the remaining portion of the story. The reader should always be given enough reasons to read the story in the first place. There is no yardstick to measure the ingredients that make for a successful lead. You may be able to pen a decent one through constant reading. Read everything you can lay hands on that looks news worthy at least to you.