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What problems should we pay attention to when writing news articles?

Pay attention to the following questions when writing news:

First of all, make clear the three elements of news.

Six elements: including "five W's": who (who), what (what) when (when), where (why) and "one H": how (how), that is, time, place, people, the cause, process and result of the event.

Clarifying these six elements has three major effects on news work:

First of all, it helps reporters to quickly understand the main points of each fact when interviewing news.

Second, it helps reporters to quickly grasp the news focus, especially in the writing of news leads.

Third, it helps to understand the meaning of news genre.

Second, grasp the characteristics of news.

General features:

Position: clear.

Content: true and concrete

Response: Prompt and timely.

Language: concise and accurate

Four characteristics: truthfulness, freshness, conciseness and profundity.

There are two inherent basic characteristics: one is truth, and the other is freshness, which extends the requirement of quick and timely news reporting. These two points are the most basic and core laws of news.