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• A good lead attracts the reader to continue reading.
• In a hard-news story, the lead usually is written in one sentence—the first sentence of the story—and gives the most important information about the event.
•
the story that tells the reader
•
what the story is about.
What parts does a news story have?
• Lead: the beginning of the story, the hook
(诱惑物) that tells the reader what the story is about
• People who are well-known for their accomplishments— primarily entertainers, athletes or people who have gained fame for achievements, good or bad—attract a lot of attention.
same day as or the day
before publication of the newspaper,
the event is called “breaking news.”
What are the qualities
of a good news story?
• What things are newsworthy?
circles as standard is that news is the reporting of recent events.
• In China: China Daily; 21st Century;
•
Shanghai Star; English Weekly, etc.
American Newspapers and periodicals
• It sounds absurd, but fully illustrates one of the widely accepted news values—the unusual, bizarre nature of a recently happened event.
Celebrities
is also very important.
• Headlin百度文库; lead; dateline; and byline
Categories of News
• News falls into basic categories:
•
hard news and soft news.
• “Hard news” includes ----
• This story ran on the front page because of the celebrity status of the entertainers….
Human interest:
• People like stories about people who have special problems, achievements or experiences.
What parts does a news story have?
• All news stories answer some basic questions: who, what, when, where, why and how?
• Like all stories, the basic news story has a headline and three general parts: a beginning called the “lead”, a middle called the “body” and an ending.
Timeliness
An event that happened the day of or day before publication or an event that is due to happen in the immediate future is considered timely.
These are some of these traditional qualities of both hard- and soft-news stories:
Timeliness (时效性) Proximity （接近性） Unusual nature （新奇） Celebrities （名人名流） Human interest （人情味） Conflict （冲突）
A Selective Reading of American and British Newspapers and Periodicals
Lecturer: Zeng Wen-hua
Textbook：
A quality Selection of Articles from American & British Newspaper & Periodicals
Unusual Nature: the uniqueness of an event
• There is a well-known saying:
• “It is not news when a dog bites a man, but absolutely news when you find a man bites a dog.”
Conflict & Impact:
• Stories involving conflicts people have with government or other people are often newsworthy, especially when the conflict reflects local problems.
Proximity
• An event may be of interest to local readers because it happened in or close to the community.
• For example: Wuhanese will be quite interested in when the subway tunnels began to be built and when it will be accomplished.
British Newspapers and periodicals
• The Times The Sun • The Financial Times • The Guardian The Observer • Daily Mirror The Daily Telegraph • The Economist
• These stories can be profiles or unusual stories about people that make readers care about their plight.
• Here is an example of human interest: Kids Helping Kids Survive the Effects of Katrina.
Some events that happened in the past also may be considered timely if they are printed on an anniversary of the event, such as one, five or 10 years after the incident.
A story about the growing number of babies suffering from AIDS could be considered a soft-news story.
It isn’t less important than hard news, but it isn’t news that happened overnight.
What parts does a news story have?
• A news story is composed of headline, lead, body, and before lead, there are dateline and byline.
• Headline: The headline is the line on top of
For example, a story about the effectiveness of diets would be considered soft news.
Categories of News
“Soft news” can also be stories that focus on people, places or issues that affect readers’ lives. These types of stories are called “feature stories.”
What parts does a news story have?
• The dateline, which tells readers when and
where the story is written, is important.
• The byline, which gives credit to the writer,
Hard News
Soft News
flash (快讯)
features （特写）
urgent （急电） brief （简讯）
personal (人物特写)
profile
breaking
news Anecdote (趣事；轶事)
（突发新闻） If the action or event occurred the
• New York Times; Washington Post; • Los Angeles Times; Wall Street Journal; • USA today; International Herald Tribune • Christen Science Monitor • Time; Newsweek; Business Week • US News & the World Report • Fortune; Reader’s Digest;
《美英报刊文章阅读》
（精选本）（第二版）
周学艺 主编 Beijing University Press，2001
What is news?
• What is news? What English Newspapers do you know?
• The definition accepted in China’s academic
and testimony in court cases.
• These stories have immediacy.
Categories of News
“Soft news” is defined as
• news that entertains or informs, with an emphasis on human interest(人情味) and novelty（ 新 奇 ） and less immediacy than hard news.
• stories of a timely nature about events or conflicts that have just happened or are about to happen, such as crimes, fires, meetings, protest rallies, speeches
• In a hard-news story, the lead usually is written in one sentence—the first sentence of the story—and gives the most important information about the event.
•
the story that tells the reader
•
what the story is about.
What parts does a news story have?
• Lead: the beginning of the story, the hook
(诱惑物) that tells the reader what the story is about
• People who are well-known for their accomplishments— primarily entertainers, athletes or people who have gained fame for achievements, good or bad—attract a lot of attention.
same day as or the day
before publication of the newspaper,
the event is called “breaking news.”
What are the qualities
of a good news story?
• What things are newsworthy?
circles as standard is that news is the reporting of recent events.
• In China: China Daily; 21st Century;
•
Shanghai Star; English Weekly, etc.
American Newspapers and periodicals
• It sounds absurd, but fully illustrates one of the widely accepted news values—the unusual, bizarre nature of a recently happened event.
Celebrities
is also very important.
• Headlin百度文库; lead; dateline; and byline
Categories of News
• News falls into basic categories:
•
hard news and soft news.
• “Hard news” includes ----
• This story ran on the front page because of the celebrity status of the entertainers….
Human interest:
• People like stories about people who have special problems, achievements or experiences.
What parts does a news story have?
• All news stories answer some basic questions: who, what, when, where, why and how?
• Like all stories, the basic news story has a headline and three general parts: a beginning called the “lead”, a middle called the “body” and an ending.
Timeliness
An event that happened the day of or day before publication or an event that is due to happen in the immediate future is considered timely.
These are some of these traditional qualities of both hard- and soft-news stories:
Timeliness (时效性) Proximity （接近性） Unusual nature （新奇） Celebrities （名人名流） Human interest （人情味） Conflict （冲突）
A Selective Reading of American and British Newspapers and Periodicals
Lecturer: Zeng Wen-hua
Textbook：
A quality Selection of Articles from American & British Newspaper & Periodicals
Unusual Nature: the uniqueness of an event
• There is a well-known saying:
• “It is not news when a dog bites a man, but absolutely news when you find a man bites a dog.”
Conflict & Impact:
• Stories involving conflicts people have with government or other people are often newsworthy, especially when the conflict reflects local problems.
Proximity
• An event may be of interest to local readers because it happened in or close to the community.
• For example: Wuhanese will be quite interested in when the subway tunnels began to be built and when it will be accomplished.
British Newspapers and periodicals
• The Times The Sun • The Financial Times • The Guardian The Observer • Daily Mirror The Daily Telegraph • The Economist
• These stories can be profiles or unusual stories about people that make readers care about their plight.
• Here is an example of human interest: Kids Helping Kids Survive the Effects of Katrina.
Some events that happened in the past also may be considered timely if they are printed on an anniversary of the event, such as one, five or 10 years after the incident.
A story about the growing number of babies suffering from AIDS could be considered a soft-news story.
It isn’t less important than hard news, but it isn’t news that happened overnight.
What parts does a news story have?
• A news story is composed of headline, lead, body, and before lead, there are dateline and byline.
• Headline: The headline is the line on top of
For example, a story about the effectiveness of diets would be considered soft news.
Categories of News
“Soft news” can also be stories that focus on people, places or issues that affect readers’ lives. These types of stories are called “feature stories.”
What parts does a news story have?
• The dateline, which tells readers when and
where the story is written, is important.
• The byline, which gives credit to the writer,
Hard News
Soft News
flash (快讯)
features （特写）
urgent （急电） brief （简讯）
personal (人物特写)
profile
breaking
news Anecdote (趣事；轶事)
（突发新闻） If the action or event occurred the
• New York Times; Washington Post; • Los Angeles Times; Wall Street Journal; • USA today; International Herald Tribune • Christen Science Monitor • Time; Newsweek; Business Week • US News & the World Report • Fortune; Reader’s Digest;
《美英报刊文章阅读》
（精选本）（第二版）
周学艺 主编 Beijing University Press，2001
What is news?
• What is news? What English Newspapers do you know?
• The definition accepted in China’s academic
and testimony in court cases.
• These stories have immediacy.
Categories of News
“Soft news” is defined as
• news that entertains or informs, with an emphasis on human interest(人情味) and novelty（ 新 奇 ） and less immediacy than hard news.
• stories of a timely nature about events or conflicts that have just happened or are about to happen, such as crimes, fires, meetings, protest rallies, speeches