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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 –

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Tricky punctuation

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

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Streamline your business writing

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

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Making big numbers relatable

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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