User-Created Clip August 9, 2013 2013-08-08T23:55:47-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/203/20130808235629002_hd.jpgRoll Call's editor discusses value of the ...
Perhaps you've heard of the inverted pyramid. This elderly news-story construction, which puts the most boring/trivial details at the bottom, is a relic of newspaper writing that needed to be cut ...
Excerpted from Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press). Before the end of the 19th century, journalist historians agree, stories were almost always told in the ...