鲜艳-捧哏怎么读
Textbook：
A quality Selection of
Articles from American & British Newspaper &
Periodicals
What is news?
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What is news? What English Newspapers do
you know?
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The definition accepted in
China?s academic circles as standard is that news
is the
reporting of recent events.
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In
China: China Daily; 21
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Century;
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Shanghai Star; English
Weekly, etc.
American Newspapers and
periodicals
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New York Times;
Washington Post;
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Los Angeles Times;
Wall Street Journal;
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USA today;
International Herald Tribune
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Christen Science Monitor
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Time;
Newsweek; Business Week
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US News &
the World Report
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Fortune; Reader?s
Digest;
British Newspapers and periodicals
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The Times The Sun
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The Financial Times
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The Guardian
The Observer
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Daily Mirror The
Daily Telegraph
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The Economist
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Types of news
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General classification
1. News story
2. News feature
3. Editorial & commentary
Others
flash (快讯) features （特写）
urgent
（急电） personal profile (人物特写)
brief （简讯）
Anecdote (趣事；轶事)
breaking news（突发新闻）
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消息，通讯，新闻特写，调查报告，报告文学
消息，特写，通讯，专访，述评
What parts does a news story have?
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All news stories answer some basic questions: who,
what, when, where, why and how?
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Like all stories, the basic news
story has a headline and three general parts: a
beginning
called the “lead”, a middle called
the “body” and an ending.
What parts does a
news story have?
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A news story is composed
of headline, lead, body, and before lead, there
are dateline
and byline.
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Headline:
The headline is the line on top of
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the story that tells the reader
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what the story is about.
What parts does a
news story have?
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Lead: the beginning of
the story, the hook
(诱惑物) that
tells the reader what
the story
is about
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A good lead attracts the reader
to continue reading.
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In a hard-news
story, the lead usually is written in one
sentence—the first sentence of
the story—and
gives the most important information about the
event.
What parts does a news story have?
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The dateline, which tells readers when
and where the story is written, is important.
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The byline, which gives credit to the
writer,
is also very important.
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Headline; lead; dateline; and byline
Categories of News
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News falls
into basic categories:
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hard news and soft news.
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“Hard news”
includes ----
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stories of a timely nature
about events or conflicts that have just happened
or are
about to happen, such as crimes, fires,
meetings, protest rallies, speeches and
testimony in court cases.
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These
stories have immediacy.
Categories of News
“Soft news” is defined as
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news that
entertains or informs, with an emphasis on human
interest(人情味) and
novelty（新奇） and less
immediacy than hard news.
For example, a
story about the effectiveness of diets would be
considered soft news.
Categories of News
“Soft news” can also be stories that focus on
people, places or issues that affect readers?
lives. These types of stories are called
“feature stories.”
A story about the growing
number of babies suffering from AIDS could be
considered a
soft-news story.
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It isn’t less important than hard news,
but it isn’t news that happened overnight.
Hard News Soft News
features （特写）
personal profile
(人物特写)
Anecdote (趣事；轶事)
What are the qualities
of a good news story?
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What things are
newsworthy?
These are some of these
traditional qualities of both hard- and soft-news
stories:
Timeliness
An event
that happened the day of or day before publication
or an event
that is due to happen in the
immediate future is considered timely.
Some events that happened in the past also may be
considered timely if
they are printed on an
anniversary of the event, such as one, five or 10
years after the
incident.
Proximity
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An event may be of interest to local
readers because it happened in or close to the
community.
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For example: Wuhanese will
be quite interested in when the subway tunnels
began to be
built and when it will be
accomplished.
Unusual Nature:
the
uniqueness of an event
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There is a well-
known saying:
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“It is not news when a dog
bites a man, but absolutely news when you find a
man bites a
dog.”
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It sounds absurd,
but fully illustrates one of the widely accepted
news values—the
unusual, bizarre nature of a
recently happened event.
Celebrities
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People who are well-known for their
accomplishments— primarily entertainers,
athletes or people who have gained fame for
achievements, good or bad—attract a lot
of
attention.
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This story ran on the front
page because of the celebrity status of the
entertainers….
Human interest:
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People like stories about people who have
special problems, achievements or
experiences.
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These stories can be profiles or unusual
stories about people that make readers care
about their plight.
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Here is an
example of human interest:
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Kids
Helping Kids Survive the Effects of Katrina.
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Conflict & Impact:
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Stories involving conflicts people have
with government or other people are often
newsworthy, especially when the conflict
reflects local problems.
Additional qualities
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Some additional qualities of news to
consider:
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Helpfulness: Consumers, health
and
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other how-to
stories.
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Entertainment: stories that
amuse
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readers,
make them feel
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good or help them enjoy
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their leisure time.
Additional qualities
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Inspiration: Stories about people who
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overcome
difficulties
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Special interest: Some
stories appeal to
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people?s
interests in such subjects as
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science, business or religion or to such
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special groups as women,
minorities,
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disabled people,
veterans, college
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students
or other groups with
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particular interests.
News
features:
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print publication or broadcast program that goes
in
detail about concepts and ideas of specific
market interest News stories aren't the
only
type of material that appear in newspapers and
magazines. Longer articles,
such as magazine
cover articles and the pieces that lead the inside
sections of a
newspaper, are known as
features. Feature stories differ from straight
news in
several ways. Foremost is the absence
of a straight-news lead, most of the time.
Instead of offering the essence of a story up
front, feature writers may attempt to
lure
readers in. While straight news stories always
stay in third person point of
view, it's not
uncommon for a feature article to slip into first
person. The
journalist will often detail his
or her interactions with interview subjects,
making
the piece more personal.
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feature's first paragraphs often relate an
intriguing moment or event, as
in an leadFrom
the particulars of a person or episode, its view
quickly broadens to generalities about the
story's subject.
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what a feature is about is called the nut
graph核心段落
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or billboard.
Billboards appear as the third or fourth paragraph
from the top, and
may be up to two paragraphs
long. Unlike a lead, a billboard rarely gives
everything away. This reflects the fact that
feature writers aim to hold their
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attention to the end, which requires engendering
curiosity and offering a
“payoff“高潮. Feature
paragraphs tend to be longer than those of news
stories,
with smoother transitions between
them. Feature writers use the active-verb
construction and concrete explanations of
straight news, but often put more
personality
in their prose.
Editorial
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editorial is an opinion piece written by the
senior editorial staff or publisher
of a
newspaper or magazine. Editorials are usually
unsigned and may be supposed
to reflect the
opinion of the periodical. Additionally, most
print publications
feature an editorial, or
letter followed by a Letters to the Editor
section. In major
newspapers, such as the New
York Times editorials are classified under the
heading
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editorial board evaluates which issues are
important for
their readership to know the
newspaper's opinion.
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