Remember that coverage may consist of more than one story. A news organization may present a short, cursory story right after the event, with a more extensive story the next day.
There are several different kinds of stories.
- Hard News: immediate, or "breaking," story about Who, What, When, Where, and Why
- Analysis: discussion of the trends, data, or personalities behind hard-news stories.
- Feature: in-depth, magazine-length story with in-depth analysis
- Editorial: unsigned piece giving the opinon of the organization's editorial board
- Op-Ed: "opposite the editorial page" expresses the opinions of an outside named writer
- Column: opinion essay by a writer who regularly writes for the paper or a syndicate
- Sidebar: a story that accompanies the main news story, focusing on a particular aspect of an event
Compare like to like. Compare hard news stories to hard news stories, columns to columns, and so on.
Note fundamental differences between print and broadcast journalism.
If you are writing an op-ed, remember ledes and kickers.
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