newswriting
- noun
- /ˈnuːzˌraɪtɪŋ/
- Literature
- Some of them, newswriting comes to mind, theoretically shouldn't have any emotional content.
Examples
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Such discourse is thus a key site for looking at interpretive agency in newswriting.
Academic text (2001) -
Effective newswriting requires clarity and objectivity to engage readers effectively.
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Column: Let's teach newswriting in order to save the USA.
Blog text (2) -
Journalists often make stylistic choices in newswriting and presentation to produce intended effects on readers.
Academic text (2017) -
Newswriting assignments
Blog text (2) -
Since he'd begun violating his wedding vows, there had been too many times when he was supposed to be at work reading student papers or at one conference or another, but instead had been sharing a bed with Angela Manning, possibly the most promising student ever to grace Tim's advanced newswriting class.
Fiction book (2002) -
Her newswriting skills helped her produce articles that informed the public accurately and promptly.
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In journalism school, students learn the fundamentals of newswriting to ensure their reports are direct and factual.
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Newswriting is made from news and writing, where news once meant 'new things' and writing means 'putting words on a page'. So newswriting is literally 'writing about new things', which explains why it means the clear, factual way of writing articles about recent events.