
Business news story structure
The inverted pyramid might be the classic model for structuring a news story, but it doesn’t work very well for business and financial news –

The inverted pyramid might be the classic model for structuring a news story, but it doesn’t work very well for business and financial news –

Here is a refresher on exclamation points, question marks, and semi-colons. Exclamation points Most style guidelines within the news industry recommend avoiding the exclamation point

Your 500-word assignment has ballooned to 750 words, and you’re convinced there’s no way to shorten it without destroying your carefully crafted prose. If that

Headline writing seems simple, but any journalist knows that it can be one of the most difficult skills in the writing process, because the importance

Vague, unclear, wordy, and gibberish are all words you do not want associated with your business writing. With so many consumers reading their news on

Increasingly, adults in the U.S. are reading their news on a mobile device. According to a Pew Research study, released last year, roughly 57% of U.S.

When you’re dealing with a huge sum—say, a proposed $1.9 trillion spending package, or adding $160 billion to the national debt—it pays to break it
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