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How to Write a Newspaper Article

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This article was co-authored by Gerald Posner . Gerald Posner is an Author & Journalist based in Miami, Florida. With over 35 years of experience, he specializes in investigative journalism, nonfiction books, and editorials. He holds a law degree from UC College of the Law, San Francisco, and a BA in Political Science from the University of California-Berkeley. He’s the author of thirteen books, including several New York Times bestsellers, the winner of the Florida Book Award for General Nonfiction, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. He was also shortlisted for the Best Business Book of 2020 by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. There are 11 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 328,797 times.

A newspaper article should provide an objective, factual account of an event, person, or place. Most newspaper articles are read quickly or skimmed by the reader, so the most important information should always appear first, followed by descriptive content that rounds out the story. By conducting research and following the correct organizational structure, you can create an informative newspaper article in no time.

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Conducting Interviews and Research

• Your sources should be experts in the field your article is focusing on, such as a certified professional, a professor, or an academic. You can use sources that have extensive experience or background in a field that relates to your article.
• Sources like a witness to an event can also be useful, especially if they have first-hand experience of the topic you are covering.

• You may need to conduct more than 1 interview with your sources, especially if they are a major source for the article. You can also send follow-up questions to your sources as needed.
• You will need to transcribe your interviews by typing them up to ensure you quote your sources correctly. Having transcriptions will also make fact checking your article and backing up your sources much easier.

• Make sure you cite the information properly in your article by noting the name or organization that provided the information. You should have credible sources to back up any claims or arguments made in the article.

• If you are writing the newspaper article for an editor, they may require you to provide a list of your sources for the article to show you have fact checked your work.

Structuring the Article

• For example, you may create a headline like, “Teen Girl Missing in Okotoks” or “Congress Stalls on Family Planning Bill.”
• In some cases, it may be easier to save the headline for last, after you have written the article, so you know what the focus of the article is and can sum it up clearly.

• For example, you may write a lead like, "An outbreak of flu in San Francisco has led to 3 elementary school closings this week, according to school officials." Or, "A missing girl originally from Okotoks was found Monday in an abandoned cabin in the Minnetonka area, according to local police."

• For example, you may write, “10-12 students have been diagnosed with the flu and health officials fear it could continue to spread if it is not contained.”

• For example, you may write, “The teen girl was reported missing on Friday afternoon by her mother after she did not come home from a study date at a friend’s house. She is the second girl to be reported missing in the past 2 weeks from the Okotoks area.”

• For example, you may write, “‘The girl is shaken, but does not appear to have any serious injuries,’ stated local Police Chief Wilborn.” Or you may write, “According to a statement by school officials, ‘The shutdown will prevent the flu from spreading further and ensure the safety of our students.’”
• Avoid using long quotes or more than 4 quotes in the article, as the reader may get confused or lost if there are too many quotations.

• For example, you may write, “The girl’s mother expressed relief for her daughter and concern about her community, noting, ‘I just hope no other girls go missing in this area.’”
• Or you may write, “Local health officials are urging parents to check the municipal health and wellness website, www.hw.org, for updates on when schools are able to reopen.”

Creating the Appropriate Voice and Tone

• For example, rather than write, “The missing girl’s mother thought it had to do with school,” you may write, “The missing girl’s mother thought bullying at school may have caused her daughter’s absences.”

• For example, rather than write, “A press conference will be held by local police tomorrow to address the missing girls and the public’s concerns,” you may write, “Local police will address the missing girls and the public’s concerns in a press conference tomorrow.”

• For example, if you're writing about two political candidates running against each other in an election, present both candidates in an equal light, rather than giving extra details about 1 candidate.
• If you're writing an op-ed piece, it's okay to mix some of your opinions with the facts.

Polishing the Article

• Reading the article aloud can also help you catch any spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors.

• For example, you may ask others questions like, “Were you able to understand what happened, based on the information in the article?” “Was the language clear and easy to follow?” “Was the article well supported with sources and quotes?”

• If you are writing the newspaper article for a class, make sure it falls within the prescribed word limit for the assignment.

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To write a newspaper article, gather all of your sources and verify any facts or sources you plan to use. Write an opening sentence that tells the readers the most essential details of the story. Write in third person, active voice, and maintain an authoritative tone throughout the article. Keep in mind the questions “Who,” “What,” “Where,” “When,” “Why,” and “How” when you’re writing your story, and try to answer as many of them as you can. When you’re finished writing the article, craft a short, engaging headline that tells readers what the article is about. To learn how reading your article out loud can help you proofread it, keep reading! Did this summary help you? Yes No

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What began with a Sunday evening tweet from Keith Gill , AKA Roaring Kitty, has materialized into a massive short-squeeze rally that has taken shares of GameStop and AMC Entertainment up 74% and 78% on Monday alone. 

Those gains increased sharply on Tuesday as momentum continued to build around the meme stock trades. Before the opening bell, shares of GameStop and AMC soared as much as 158% and 132%, respectively.

The rallies have pushed a massive short-squeeze in the stocks, not unlike the 2021 rally that caught Wall Street short sellers off guard and sank a prominent hedge fund .

The percent of the share float sold short was 24% for GameStop and 18% for AMC, according to the most recent data. 

"All this feels like an echo of early 2021, when this account helped fuel a vicious short squeeze in GameStop," DataTrek co-founder Nicholas Colas said in a Tuesday note. 

"If you are short a stock that is up 47 percent at the open (as GME was this morning), your only choice is to close out the position regardless of the price. Prudent risk management demands it. The most a stock can drop is 100 percent, but it can go up multiples of that," Colas said.

The stocks ultimately did prove to be great short bets after their initial 2021 short-squeeze rallies, with both companies seeing a deterioration in their underlying fundamentals as video game sales shifted to digital and the box office struggled to return to its pre-pandemic levels of movie ticket sales. 

Both stocks were down about 90% from their respective 2021 peaks, but now GameStop stock is trading at its highest level since late 2021, while AMC is trading at levels it last saw in October 2023.

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Burry also added five new holdings to his collection: Baidu, BP, First Solar, Sprott Physical Gold Trust, and Cigna. He also disposed of a bunch of stocks including Amazon, Alphabet, MGM Resorts, Toast, and Warner Bros. Discovery.

The Scion chief is best known for his monster wager against the mid-2000s housing bubble, which was immortalized in the book and movie "The Big Short."

He also drew attention for investing in GameStop more than a year before it became a meme stock in early 2021. The frenzy around the video games retailer reignited this week after one of its biggest proponents, investor Keith "Roaring Kitty" Gill, returned to social media after a yearslong hiatus.

Burry's latest portfolio update didn't feature any put options. The investor has previously held the bearish options on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes, Apple stock, a microchip ETF containing Nvidia, Elon Musk's Tesla, and Cathie Wood's flagship Ark fund.

The value investor is well known for his grave warnings and grim predictions about market crashes and economic catastrophes. For instance, he sounded the alarm on the "greatest speculative bubble of all time in all things" in the summer of 2021, and cautioned that buyers of meme stocks and cryptocurrencies would be caught in the "mother of all crashes."

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In his elegant obituary of Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate who died this week in Port Hope, Ontario, Anthony DePalma writes that her stories “were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.”

Mr. DePalma, a former Toronto bureau chief for The Times, continued: “She portrayed small-town folks, often in rural southwestern Ontario, facing situations that made the fantastic seem an everyday occurrence. Some of her characters were fleshed out so completely through generations and across continents that readers reached a level of intimacy with them that usually comes only with a full-length novel.”

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Ms. Munro and her work have long been covered by The Times. The first reference was one line in 1973 noting the publication of “Dance of the Happy Shades,” a collection of stories that had been released in Canada five years earlier.

This week, Opinion published an essay about Ms. Munro by the Toronto-based novelist Sheila Heti , and Books reminded readers of its guide to Ms. Munro’s work that it first published a few months ago.

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As is often the case when important cultural figures die, The Times also offered “an appraisal” of the work.

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Ms. Munro’s appraisal was written by Gregory Cowles, a senior editor at The New York Times Book Review. We spoke about her life and writing. Our conversation has been edited for space and clarity.

When did you begin reading Alice Munro?

I’m sure it was in the pages of The New Yorker because my parents subscribed. But I started reading it more seriously as a high school student. It spoke to me, and I went and sought out her books.

When my wife and I were out on our first date, I knew she’d been an English major. I said, “Oh, who do you read?” And she said, “Well, I wrote my thesis on Alice Munro.” I said, “Ah, my favorite.” Alice Munro brought us together.

As an American, do you find her stories give you a sense of Canada?

Insofar as the settings are almost exclusively Canadian, sure. But for her, the work is so specific to this one region of Canada that you have to ask: Is that particularly representative of Canada as a whole?

In some ways it also feels as much Midwestern American as Midwestern Canadian. Some of the stories cross the border, driving into Michigan or the northern Midwest of America. And so it feels very particular. It’s got a very strong sense of place. But not necessarily a strong sense of national identity.

I’d say it feels more rural in terms of the sensibility. It’s got a very strong sensibility and a very strong sense of place. But I wouldn’t only associate it with Canada.

I must confess that I’ve not read very much of her work. What are people like me missing?

Since my piece appeared, most of the comments are from people who are just huge fans of her work. But sprinkled in there is someone who says “I never quite got it,” “It seemed very flat to me,” or “Nothing happened.”

In my piece, I make a point of saying that in fact quite a lot happens. Not only in an interior sense, as you might expect from short stories. But there are a lot of actual incidents in her stories, too. They’re very rich with plot.

As her career went on, time and memory became very elastic in her stories. What you’re missing in not submitting yourself to her work is the richness of that exploration of how memory works and how we question our own experiences. That felt like an innovation that she brought to short fiction.

She was inventing something. And she was applying some things that novelists had been doing at novel length with time and with memory. But doing it in such a compressed form.

Did she change the perception of short stories generally?

The perception of short stories generally did change while she was at the forefront of the form. But did she change it?

There were a lot of people at her time. If you’re going to talk Canadians: Mavis Gallant . There was like a real revival of the short story. She had something to do with it, for sure. But I think it was also something in the zeitgeist.

What book would you recommend to someone who doesn’t know her work?

She was prolific. I would, of course, say read it all.

But if you want me to say just one, I’d say “ Runaway .”

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