Saturday, January 17, 2009

News writing angles can be hard to grasp

I had an important lesson in the media writing skills class I teach once a week, to do with news angles.

At the end of the class, the students were asked to spot news angles from a speech by a former Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Happily, most of them did well but they were still not entirely comfortable with the concept of angles for news writing.

I spent another 30-40 minutes with them going over it, looking at other examples and analysing writing techniques and it appears they have it sussed.

I hope so, because for successful news writing, you simply MUST know about news angles.

the 14-week course is pretty much covered in my ebook on news writing.

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