2008/5/23 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
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.