Newspaper Article Writing: Four Steps For Effective Writing - Manvi

As a student of web journalism, it is important to know how to write news articles which are not just informative but attractive as well. It is to ensure that your readers get good reading experience.

Here are few steps to write news articles:

1. Learn from the professionals: You should make it a routine to read newspapers or go through news websites daily. This would really help you to learn how news articles are written and what factors make them attention grabbing. Try to take advice or know trade secrets from professionals. This would really help you.

2. Choice of topic: Choose only that topic which is newsworthy, like you can write about any latest news in national and international arena. Entertainment, sports, crime are some of the topics you can choose depending upon your areas of interest and expertise.

3. Catchy headlines: You should remember that the readers have many options in front of them to read. There will be many other articles along with your article on the same page. To make your article outshine, you would have to use attention grabbing headline for it. Make sure the headline of your article provides answers for 4 W’s which stands for what, when, where and who, this will let your readers know what the story is about.

4. Inverted pyramid technique: This technique basically refers to decreasing newsworthy value in every following paragraph. It is really important for news article writing as the audience are usually pressed for time, the readers can close your articles anytime. Therefore, it is important that you provide them juiciest information first. This way, you would be able to provide them important information even if they close the article too soon. The inverted pyramid technique also helps in promoting further reading.