Journalists
24 Plus News has been established to provide a platform for those interested in becoming local and International journalists and for existing journalists to get stories published via alternative digital media services.
All articles are immediately broadcast to the International community via advanced RSS News Feeds and listed on world news search engines such as Google and Technorati with minimal delay.
Simply register and choose a user name and you can immediately use the service.
Why 24Plus News?
24Plus News enables SIMPLE NEWS REPORTING available to anyone with access to a computer connected to the Internet.
Have you ever had a wonderful STORY to TELL the WORLD – found some information about corrupt practices, or wanted to tell the world at large about a wonderful NEW discovery or opinion about an individual or organisation?
Now you can act and GET YOUR ARTICLE FEATURED in front of MILLIONS of people throughout the world, EASILY, and at NO or minimal COST whatsoever.
YOU can play a major part in the “QUANTUM CHANGE” taking place in the way International and Local News is gathered and published. CROWD POWER and CITIZEN JOURNALISM techniques are CHANGING the WORLD of information reporting right now.
Why is this CHANGE happening?
Traditional reporting and publishing has been carried out by small teams of employed or freelance journalists developing news stories which have been published via printed newspapers sold to customers keen to know what is happening across the world.
Developed Technology “off the back” of the Internet and Mobile Camera Phone technology has now resulted in a NEW TYPE OF NEWS SERVICE which can virtually instantly bring breaking News Stories to world populations as situations present themselves The Tsunami disaster is probably the defining moment for world reporting – Traditional reporters could not get to the disaster areas – mobile phones and computers were used from within the disaster zones to make the world aware of the major event.
Computer Technology enables breaking news to be accessed and displayed on your computer screen via Internet access at the click of a mouse button..
The technology change is forcing many traditional newspaper organisations to review operational policy as they struggle to maintain circulation figures and fixed costs escalate – organisations have been consolidating and some companies have gone out of business in recent years.
When can I get involved?
Right now…
All you need is the ability to notice events happening around the area you either live or work in, or maybe you have a particular interest in something and carry out research which leads to newsworthy material which could interest others.
Maybe you are already a NEWS REPORTER and suffering from editor “blockage” which prevents your story getting printed – We WANT YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS right now!
How can I take part and what skills do I need?
Just Register with 24Plus News, select a User Name and enter your Personal Password – An email will be immediately sent you, just click the validation link and return to the 24Plus News website, Login and continue to our simple online article and graphic submission programme and enter your article and photo to be submitted – enjoy…
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Simple Tips to make your article attractive to readers:
Format:
News articles should contain the following items:
Headline:
An attention getting short phrase at the top of the article.
Byline:
By, your name.
Lead Paragraph:
Start with a strong, interesting sentence to get the reader engaged. Include the who,what, when, where, why, and how as appropriate.
The paragraph should invite the reader to read on and summarise the main feature points you are making.
Explanation and Amplification:
This section will include several brief paragraphs explaining the details surrounding the event, research or – your photograph.
Background Information:
This section will include several brief paragraphs explaining events leading up to the picture, related national stories, etc.
Bias:
News articles should be written without bias. In other words, you should report the facts objectively – don’t give personal opinions in your news article – avoid the use of “I”.
If using third party quotes or articles to augment your feature always give full credit to the author.
Respect the rights of others and please do not blatantly copy existing written work – always put a new “slant” on events that may have been reported previously and place weblinks to the articles or information concerned as reference points – Jim Smith in his article on… said…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The principle underlying the maxim is that each question should elicit a factual answer — facts that it is necessary to include for a report to be considered complete. Importantly, none of these questions can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no”.
In the context of the “news style” for newspaper reporting, the Five W’s are types of facts that should be contained in the “lead” (sometimes spelled lede to avoid confusion with the typographical term “leading” or similarly spelled words), or first two or three paragraphs of the story, after which more expository writing is allowed.
The “Five Ws” (and one H) were memorialized by Rudyard Kipling in his “Just So Stories” (1902), in which a poem accompanying the tale of “The Elephant’s Child” opens with the lines
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
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