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Birth of the Inverted Pyramid: A Child of Technology, Commerce and History - Poynter

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Excerpted from Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press). Before the end of the 19th century, journalist historians agree, stories were almost always told in the traditional, slow-paced (some might say long-winded) way. Whether they were fairy tales or newspaper accounts, they began with a signal that something important, useful, inspiring or entertaining was about to begin (“Once upon a time”). The narrator, or storyteller, started at the beginning and continued to the end, leaving the outcome until the last (“And they lived happily ever after”). Consider the leisurely style of British correspondent William Howard Russell in his coverage of the Battle of Balaklava in 1854. If the exhibition of the most brilliant valor, of the excess of courage, and of a daring which would have reflected luster on the best days of chivalry can afford full consolation for the disaster of today, we can have no reason to regret the melancholy loss which we sustained in a

Uncategorized By: Chip Scanlan June 20, 2003 --> --> Excerpted from Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press). Before the end of the 19th century, journalist historians agree, stories were almost always told in the traditional, slow-paced (some might say long-winded) way. Whether they were fairy tales or newspaper accounts, they began with a signal that something important, useful, inspiring or entertaining was about to begin (“Once upon a time”). The narrator, or storyteller, started at the beginning and continued to the end, leaving the outcome

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