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Editors cannot print everything, so they judge each event by its news values: the qualities that make it interesting or important to the audience. The more values an event has, the more space it gets.
Most hard news is written in the inverted pyramid. The most important facts come first and the least important last. The opening paragraph, the lead, answers as many of the 5Ws and 1H as it can. A reader in a hurry gets the main point at once, and an editor can cut the story from the bottom.
News comes from sources: witnesses, officials, documents, press releases and news agencies. Reporters assigned to a fixed area, such as the courts, cover a beat.
Proximity and impact are often confused. Proximity is about how near the event is to the audience; impact is about how many people it affects and how deeply.
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