2Writing news
What is news?
News is easy enough to define. To be news, something must be factual, new and interesting.
There must be facts to report – without them there can be no news. The facts must be new – to your readers at least. And these facts must be likely to interest your readers.
So if a historian makes a discovery about the eating habits of the ancient Britons, say, somebody can write a news story about it for the periodical History Today. The information will be new to its readers, though the people concerned lived hundreds or thousands of years ago. Then, when the story is published, it can be followed up by a national newspaper like the Daily Telegraph or the Sunday Mirror, on the assumption that it would appeal to their readers. ...
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