Perhaps you've heard of the inverted pyramid. This elderly news-story construction, which puts the most boring/trivial details at the bottom, is a relic of newspaper writing that needed to be cut ...
They go by many names: charticles, non-narratives, storytelling devices, alternative story forms, ASFs and alts, among others. They’re also changing the ways journalists work together. Why use ...
People have a tendency to tell stories chronologically. Newswriting style is not chronological. The inverted pyramid turns storytelling on its head. Picture an upside-down triangle: the broad base ...