The lecture on the second week is presented by a guest lecturer, Rodney Chester, who is a graduate of UQ Journalism (that would make him a senior for us) and has worked in Courier Mail for 20 years. The topic for the lecture is "Telling factual stories". Before the lectures it is advisable for the students to read an article Quinn, S. and Filak, V.F. (n.d.) titled Convergent Journalism: An Introduction.
Journalistic writing is a formulaic writing that is shaped like an inverted pyramid. The first level of the pyramid consists of the lead which usually addresses the 5W1H (What, Why, Where, Who, When and How). All the important information is packed in the beginning so that the reader can understand the summary of the issue. Other important details are written below it (the second level of the pyramid). The information in this level are important details that support the previous level. The last level is the least important detail that gives additional information to the readers. When writing an article a journalist should abide to this rule.
(Chandra, A., 2009)
This lecture helped me to understand about writing a journalistic article. Before, I have always thought that journalistic article is similar to writing a narrative story that starts with introduction to climax to resolution. However, after I attended this lecture I learn to write an article in inverted pyramid form.
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