News is the communication of information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience. Here are some guides if you want to write articles about news.
Identify the issue or your title - by simply understanding your targeted news outlet for a few days, you can get an idea of what stories and issues they care about. You can also read opponent publications to see how they treat the same stories. Look at all sections: general news, business, and sports and so on to decide which topics you are most comfortable with. Zero in on any meticulous news issue and make yourself an expert on it. Get to be acquainted with whom the main players and what their views or grievances are.
Know the story further, study all the sections - for each day that passes, an issue needs to be freshened up to make it remarkable. If a sportsperson is injured one day, the next day people would want to know how long he or she will be out for. If a catastrophe strikes, the follow up would be casualty count and feedback, but remember that the news outlet would either have their own staff or a syndicated wire service providing articles for them. This means you have to think of a viewpoint that is entirely different. If you can think of one that is out of the ordinary and not covered by anyone else, you would have won the expectation of the editor involved. Check out pertinent blogs to see what the man on the street is saying. Some of them may have inside information or an informant that no one else has.
Write your article in journalistic style - Journalism news writing means employing who, what, why, where, when and how system that gets the news out as quick as possible. You also need to identify what kind of story you are going to write. Is it a hard-hitting news article, a distressing quote story or an analytical feature?
