ELECTION IN TRUMP +22 DISTRICT, wastoute wrote:
If a “professional journalist” can’t manage to get the relevant facts in the first paragraph then the entire piece is irrelevant. Sorry.
I’m on information overload. I don’t read every article in its entirity that comes by my desk unless the writing is superlative. That is rare.
As a writer of articles for a junior high newspaper I learned you gotta get the 5 Ws in the first sentence or two.