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The Inverted Pyramid News Article Style

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Summary: Learn how to write a news article in inverted pyramid style in this free journalism training course on video.

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Peggy Charlton has been an English teacher as well as a drama coach during her 28-year career as an educator. She purchased an 80 year old home, and she remodeled it, room by room,...read more

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"Hi! This is Peggy Charlton for Expert Village and today I would like to talk to you how to write in journalistic style manner and could be for a newspaper. Every news story is written in inverted pyramid style. Let me tell you about the history of inverted pyramid. It is very interesting but let me explain what it is first. Here is an inverted pyramid. This is going to be your lead, this is going to be your body and this is going to be your conclusion. You start out telling the most important things first and then you go in descending order of importance. So your conclusion is really the least important of the thing. So you've got everything important in your lead and then you are going to have more things in your body explaining until the end. "

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