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newswriting

newswriting

3.3
A way to present news facts clearly without personal opinion
  • noun
  • /ˈnuːzˌraɪtɪŋ/
  • Literature
translation icon : redacción periodística
  • Some of them, newswriting comes to mind, theoretically shouldn't have any emotional content.

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In journalism school, students learn the fundamentals of newswriting to ensure their reports are direct and factual.

How Clear

newswriting
  • Literature
3.3
reporting
  • Literature
241 2.5
misreport
6.1

Surface Forms

newswriting singular
newswritings plural

Morphology

newswriting = news + writing (transparent) = news + writing

The meaning 'writing about news' follows directly from the clear combination of 'news' + 'writing' and is readily inferable by learners.

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.