Lede's and Story Structure

Story Structure

Inverted Pyramid:

• The most important stuff at the top
• Importance goes down as you go
• Lede is at the top

Lede-

5 W's and 1H

• Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How
• Lede should try to fit everything in.

Paragraph format:

1. Lede 
2. Nut graf (fit in extra things you couldn't fit in 1st paragraph)
3. "quote (direct)"
4. Factual statement
5. "quote (direct)
6. continue with 3 & 4 until the end of the story.

Quoting in Journalism-

Quote the person and put a comma after the quote and THEN the ending quotation marks then title name said. Use said.