write a report on fight you see for news paper
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“Must be exciting!” “Cool!” “In the thick of action all the time!” Reactions border on these lines when you tell people you’re a journalist. Without doubt, being a journalist is fun and I wouldn’t exchange it for anything else in the world. But gathering news and putting together feature stories is not an easy task by any stretch of imagination. You’ll understand this better as we discuss ideas to write newspaper reports / features. So get out your reporter’s pen and notebook, and get set go!
5Ws AND 1 H
Every news report and largely every news feature too must include answers to the 5Ws and 1H - Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. This, in a nutshell, is your news. For instance, if you are writing a news report about a robbery in your residential colony, then you have to follow this pattern: What happened, who it happened to, where and when did it happen, why it happened and how.
These questions can be tweaked around for a news feature. For example, if you observe a trend around this same news story – a spate of robberies in the neighbourhood, you could follow it up with a feature story digging deeper into the issue. The line of questioning then would be: What has been happening, Who have been the victims, when and where have the police been able to solve any case and so on.
THE THREE CS
The three Cs are writing Clearly, Concisely and being Correct. If you are not clear in your report, it’s just beating around the bush and not getting to the point, nobody will understand what you want to report.
READ THIS:
Report 1
Today was shocking. Mr. Narayana was in trouble. His house was robbed and his wife was crying as a lot of her gold was also taken. His children were also shocked and they were confused as to what was happening. The watchman was saying that he saw two unknown people in the building but he thought they were part of the lift repair team so it was very difficult for him to understand whether they had come to repair or rob and that is why he did not ask them who they were and why they were there.
Report 2
October 15, 2017
Anna Nagar, Chennai
In a shocking incident today in Anna Nagar, robbers looted flat number 601 that belongs to R. Narayana. Mr. Narayana and his family were not home at 1p.m. when the incident occurred. Robbers made off with Rs. 50,000 and some gold jewellery, the value of which is still unknown. The robbers (most likely two of them) broke in through the main door and were not caught while doing so as the neighbouring flat is unoccupied. The watchman said he had seen two unidentified men loitering about in the compound but took them to be lift service personnel. The police are investigating.
THE LEAD SENTENCE
While most people think news reports should be just factual pieces of information and that fancy language should be left for news features and trends, that is not entirely correct. Of course, you must keep judgement out (statements such as “I am shocked to hear” or “It is depressing that” or “I don’t think the decision was correct”). In a news report everyone wants to simply know what happened. Yet, if you just provide facts, it will make the news report rather dull.
So you could use a lead like this:
* In what could be called a decision that will change the way traffic rules are followed, the government has announced that it will make every offender a traffic cop for two hours.
* Mumbai train travellers can now heave a sigh of relief - the lifeline of Mumbai, it’s trains, will have air-conditioning by next December.
5Ws AND 1 H
Every news report and largely every news feature too must include answers to the 5Ws and 1H - Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. This, in a nutshell, is your news. For instance, if you are writing a news report about a robbery in your residential colony, then you have to follow this pattern: What happened, who it happened to, where and when did it happen, why it happened and how.
These questions can be tweaked around for a news feature. For example, if you observe a trend around this same news story – a spate of robberies in the neighbourhood, you could follow it up with a feature story digging deeper into the issue. The line of questioning then would be: What has been happening, Who have been the victims, when and where have the police been able to solve any case and so on.
THE THREE CS
The three Cs are writing Clearly, Concisely and being Correct. If you are not clear in your report, it’s just beating around the bush and not getting to the point, nobody will understand what you want to report.
READ THIS:
Report 1
Today was shocking. Mr. Narayana was in trouble. His house was robbed and his wife was crying as a lot of her gold was also taken. His children were also shocked and they were confused as to what was happening. The watchman was saying that he saw two unknown people in the building but he thought they were part of the lift repair team so it was very difficult for him to understand whether they had come to repair or rob and that is why he did not ask them who they were and why they were there.
Report 2
October 15, 2017
Anna Nagar, Chennai
In a shocking incident today in Anna Nagar, robbers looted flat number 601 that belongs to R. Narayana. Mr. Narayana and his family were not home at 1p.m. when the incident occurred. Robbers made off with Rs. 50,000 and some gold jewellery, the value of which is still unknown. The robbers (most likely two of them) broke in through the main door and were not caught while doing so as the neighbouring flat is unoccupied. The watchman said he had seen two unidentified men loitering about in the compound but took them to be lift service personnel. The police are investigating.
THE LEAD SENTENCE
While most people think news reports should be just factual pieces of information and that fancy language should be left for news features and trends, that is not entirely correct. Of course, you must keep judgement out (statements such as “I am shocked to hear” or “It is depressing that” or “I don’t think the decision was correct”). In a news report everyone wants to simply know what happened. Yet, if you just provide facts, it will make the news report rather dull.
So you could use a lead like this:
* In what could be called a decision that will change the way traffic rules are followed, the government has announced that it will make every offender a traffic cop for two hours.
* Mumbai train travellers can now heave a sigh of relief - the lifeline of Mumbai, it’s trains, will have air-conditioning by next December.
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