TYPES OF NEWS

News
 It is an information about current events.
 This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth,
printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or
through the testimony of observes and witnesses to events.

TYPES OF NEWS
Hard News / Straight News
 It is based on factual research and covers significant events with
practical, real-world impacts.
 It presents information in a clear, quick, and straight-to-the-point
summary.
 Crime, politics, extreme weather, and new virus spreading.

Subcategory of Straight News

Breaking News
 It is the coverage of information with timeliness as a significant news
value.
 It is often updated regularly as news develops and as journalists
uncover new information about the sometimes ongoing event.
 For breaking news, timeliness is essential
Local News
 Events that are happening in a particular community or regions.
 Barangay election wherein the individuals are elected to serve
as barangay officials.
National News
 Events that are happening in a country.
 Presidential election, since it has a significant impact on a
nation’s future.
International News
 Events that are happening around the world.
  Corona Virus was first documented in December 2019. Shortly
after that, on March 11, 2019, the World Health Organization
declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic.

Enterprise News
 It relies heavily on original reporting driven by journalists.
 Enterprise stories often involve creative and advanced reporting
methods, including public records requests, data collection and
analysis, access to historical documents, and other methods through
which a journalist uses their skills to unearth information.
 It is called enterprise news/journalism because the journalists
who are successful at it must be enterprising to develop their
own story ideas, sources, and means of gaining access to
information.

Investigative and Watchdog Journalism

 Investigative stories often take the shape of long-form stories because
of the amount of reporting and information they comprise. Long-form
stories are much longer than traditional news stories, with word
counts totalling in the thousands, rather than the hundreds of a
typical straight news story.
 It is called investigative journalism because the journalists who
do it dedicate their work to the sleuth-like pursuit, through a
wide variety of investigative techniques, of information about a
niche topic that is often difficult to access.
Feature Stories
 It is written in a more open-ended, less strict structure than straight
news stories. And it is often significantly longer than straight news
stories.
 The information is presented in a more creative approach.
Entertainment Journalism
 Also known as lifestyle journalism or cultural journalism, depicts pop
culture and the many aspects of our daily lives with which it overlaps.
 The Lead
Lead
 An introduction to any news story.
 May be a single word, a phrase, a clause, a brief sentence, an entire
paragraph or a series of paragraphs.
Functions of the Lead
1. Introduces the news story
2. Tells the story in a capsule form (refers to crafting a concise and
condensed lead sentence or paragraph that provides the most
important information about a news story.)
3. Answers right away the questions that the reader would naturally ask
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Kinds of Leads
1. Conventional or Summary Lead
 Used in straight news
 Answers right away all or any of the 5 W’s and/or the H

a. Who Lead
 Used when the person involved is more prominent
than what he does or what had happened to him.
b. What Lead
 Used when the event is more important than the
person involved in the story.
c. Where Lead
 Used when the place is unique and no prominent
person is involved in the story.
d. When Lead
 Rarely used as the reader presumes that story to be
timely.
 However, this lead is useful when speaking of deadlines,
holidays, and important dates.
e. Why Lead
 Used when the reason is more important or unique
than what had happens.
f. How Lead
 Used when the manner, mode, means, or method of
achieving the story is unnatural in way.
2. Grammatical Beginning Lead
 When the lead is introduced by a kind of grammatical form
which is usually a phrase or a clause used to emphasize a
feature.

a. Prepositional Phrase Lead

 Phrase is introduced by a preposition
b. Infinitive Phrase Lead
 It begins with the sign of the infinitive to plus the
main verb.
c. Participial Phrase Lead
 It is introduced by the present and past participle of
the verb.
d. Gerundial Phrase Lead
 It is introduced by a gerund (a verbal noun ending in
ing).
e. Clause Lead
 It begins with a clause which may either be
independent or subordinate, or may either be a noun
or an adjectival or adverbial clause.

3. Novelty Lead
 Some kinds of leads are best used in writing news features.
 They are written in such a way that they attract the attention or
carry out a definite purpose.

a. Astonisher Lead
 Uses an interjection or an exclamatory sentence.
b. Contrast Lead
 Describes two extremes or opposites for emphasis.
 The sharper the contrast, the more effective the lead will
be.
c. Epigram Lead
 Opens by quoting a common expression, verse, or
epigram, at least familiar in the locality.
d. Picture Lead
 Describes person, a place, or an event and at the same
time, the
e. Background Lead
 Similar to the picture lead, except that it describes the
setting which is more important than the event or the
person involved.
 f. Descriptive Lead
 Used when comparatively few descriptive words can
vividly formulate an imagery.
g. Parody Lead
 Consist of a parody of a well-known songs, poems, or
lines.
h. Punch Lead
 A short, forceful word or expression.
 It is rarely used.
i. Quotation Lead
 Consist of speaker’s direct words which are very
striking and which are usually quoted from speech, a
public address, or an interview.
j. Question Lead
 An answer to a question which is the basis of the news
story.

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