[读书笔记] Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method

在媒体做英语编译，仿佛一只脚迈进了新闻传媒这个行业，不补点专业知识是混不下去的。

卡罗尔·里奇的《新闻写作与报道训练教程》（Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method）放在案头也有好几个月了，全英文的，一直没安排好时间好好学习下组长给的这本编译入门教程。

俗话说，既要低头干活，也要抬头看路。从7月份到现在，英语编译对于我这个语言出身的职场新手已经不再是个难题，是时候该抬起头来，看看书卷里新闻界大咖的教诲。

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《新闻写作与报道训练教程》
（Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method）

C2 Basic News Story关于新闻故事

Basic News Story新闻故事

What?新闻故事是什么？

The basic news story is told upside down. Itusually is called a hard-news story.
新闻写作格式俗称“倒三角”，即重要的放在开头导语。我刚开始做国传的时候娜姐讲了历史缘由。战时军事情报传输用打字机，速度慢不说，部分情报可能因为信号中断等意外而丢失，因此重要的事情一定要先说，解释性的信息或是事件详情可以后说，甚至丢了也不影响战事。这个故事让我对新闻“倒三角”有了感性的认识。

How?怎么写呢？

Two formulas
No. 1 A direct approach
Give the result first. Then explain and givedetails.
No. 2 A storytelling approach
Some stories start with a storytelling approach,such as an anecdote about a person or place.
有两种写法，一种是报道式，突出新闻六要素（5W1H），把事情讲明白，这是硬新闻的写作。另一种是讲故事，像专题报道（feature）一样，人物和事件相关报道不能拿六要素来框着写，这时候就要用故事来开头和架构一条新闻啦！

News has a FOCUS

Regardless of how you start or structure yourstory, all news stories are developed around one main point, a FOCUS!
The body of a story should contain QUOTEs, FACTs andINFO to support the main FOCUS.

How?

Two steps
Step 1: decide what the story is about (can help finda lead)
Focus statement/focus graph/ nut graph (核心段落) shouldbe in one sentence fewer than 35 words.
想好这条新闻想说啥。把想说的浓缩为一个核心段落，一句话，不多于35个字。

Step 2: how you would tell the story to a friend (helpfind a structure for the story)
Talk about the most interesting info first
Talk about something that isn’t clear, your friendwill probably ask you to explain.
想想这是一个故事，要讲给朋友听

Then, write a compelling story to make the reader SEE.

The best reporters, whatever their backgrounds ortheir personalities, share that consummate drive to get to the center of astory and then put the reader on the screen.
From Eugene Roberts, a former editor at The NewYork Times