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| - This Wiki article is a many-tentacled hydra. It is intended to tell you everything you need to know about journalism to write ICly as a "serious" reporter for OtherSpace's IC news services. It will also eventually include the INN Manual of Style, which will list an index of preferred usages for titles, addresses, locations, grammar and spelling, etc. Don't worry too much about that, though -- your IC editor will handle any necessary wording changes. By the time you're done reading this brief article, you will be able to 'fake it' as an OtherSpace journalist passably well by knowing:
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| - This Wiki article is a many-tentacled hydra. It is intended to tell you everything you need to know about journalism to write ICly as a "serious" reporter for OtherSpace's IC news services. It will also eventually include the INN Manual of Style, which will list an index of preferred usages for titles, addresses, locations, grammar and spelling, etc. Don't worry too much about that, though -- your IC editor will handle any necessary wording changes. By the time you're done reading this brief article, you will be able to 'fake it' as an OtherSpace journalist passably well by knowing:
* The mind of a journalist
* The structure of a journalistic organization
* How to pitch a story to an editor and get the editor to let you write it
* The right way to talk to sources
* How "attribution" works when quoting someone
* How to structure a basic news article using the "inverted pyramid" format
* Some basics about use of language, or style, in a journalistic piece of writing It isn't as much as it sounds like -- honest! Dig in and enjoy.
- This Wiki article is a many-tentacled hydra. It is intended to tell you everything you need to know about journalism to write ICly as a "serious" reporter for OtherSpace's IC news services. It will also eventually include the INN Manual of Style, which will list an index of preferred usages for titles, addresses, locations, grammar and spelling, etc. Don't worry too much about that, though -- your IC editor will handle any necessary wording changes. By the time you're done reading this brief article, you will be able to 'fake it' as an OtherSpace journalist passably well by knowing:
* The mind of a journalist
* The structure of a journalistic organization
* How to pitch a story to an editor and get the editor to let you write it
* The right way to talk to sources
* How "attribution" works when quoting someone
* How to structure a basic news article using the "inverted pyramid" format
* Some basics about use of language, or style, in a journalistic piece of writing It isn't as much as it sounds like -- honest! Dig in and enjoy. You can also check out information on the Intergalactic News Network, a player-managed news organization.
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