What is the difference between self-publishing writing and traditional writing these days? Traditional article topics are required to be brief and concise self media can write so long?

I work in traditional media and usually like to write some self media stuff. This question is more appropriate for me to answer.

First of all, the title, the traditional media title needs to be brief and concise, a sentence summarizing the full text of the event or to express the meaning of the direct, dry. Self-media headlines are different, they have a variety of forms, and even the sky is the limit. Let's say: the education department issued a notice announcing the opening of the city's primary and secondary schools on September 8th. Then the title of the traditional media in all likelihood is "the city's primary and secondary schools will start on September 8 unified", while the title of the self media may be "Parents look over! The primary and secondary school start time announced"; may also be "September 8, let us hold hands together wandering in the big playground" traditional media to pay attention to the least words to express the most pertinent meaning, while the media is spontaneous.

Then again, the content of the traditional media, news, newsletters, reviews and other genres have a relatively fixed mode of writing. And since the media do not pay too much attention, basically belong to how you want to write how to write, as long as the meaning of the expression on the line, of course, the premise to comply with the rules of the platform text. Language traditional media to be a lot more rigorous, punctuation with a number can not be wrong one; self media can use network terms, and even some specific misspelled words, such as "unknown" "girl", etc., such words in the traditional media that is a mistake! On the contrary, in the media feel more grounded, closer to the distance between the readers. Show form, traditional media focus more on text description, while the media to try to use more pictures, less text, looks more vivid and intuitive, the so-called a good picture is better than a thousand words is so.

Finally, to summarize, the traditional media can not write according to the way of the media, but the media can be written according to the way of the traditional media, which is the biggest difference. In addition, you said that traditional media headlines should be simple and concise, self media headlines can be very long, this is not necessarily, traditional media headlines can be the main label plus sub-label, but self media is not.

I hope my answer can satisfy you.