NEWS is reporting actual events published in the mass media . News writing communication skills including the media ( mass media communication) , the communication through the mass media .
Basic guidelines how to write good news and ” right ” – according to the rules of journalism and the news media has been customary four, namely elements of news , the inverted pyramid , the language of journalism , and the structure of the news script .
Elements of News
Writing news ( news) that the whole point is to develop 5W +1 H , the six elements of news :
1 . WHAT ( What happened , what events )
2 . WHO ( Who’s doing , actors , or involved in the incident )
3 . WHEN (When that happened , the time element peristriwa )
4 . WHERE ( In which case, the element of the crime scene )
5 . WHY ( Why did it happen , why did the “who” did it , the cause of events , background events )
6 . HOW ( How the process , chronology , the course of events , details of events ) .
Inverted pyramid
These six elements are usually arranged with formula or inverted pyramid style ( inverted pyramid ) , which emphasizes the most important elements or considered most important . Typically also , which is considered the most important element of WHAT and WHO .
the inverted pyramid
Language Journalism
These six elements are arranged in such a way that the news by using the language of journalism , language press , newspaper languange , or the language of mass communication ( mass communication language) with characteristics :
1 . Save the word ( economy of words , concise ) .
2 . Straightforward ( to the point , no long-winded )
3 . Logical , referring to the formula SPOK ( Subject , Predicate , Object , Description )
4 . easy to understand
5 . short sentences
6 . Active sentence .
The structure of news script
Paired six elements of language news and journalism are arranged in a news script with the structure of the news script as follows:
1 . The headline
2 . line date
3 . terrace news
4 . news content