2008/5/23 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
I'm a bit alarmed about the references in this
thread to newspaper
journalism techniques. Do recall, everyone, that such articles are
recycled, in most cases in 24 hours.
News magazine journalism might be a more useful comparison. The thing
that strikes me about our famously good current event articles - e.g.
on the Indian Ocean quake or the Virginia Tech massacre - is that they
read like good articles from a news magazine and were in fact
reasonably well written even while undergoing fast changes. Not
immaculate essays, but good, readable and informative.
- d.