Article:		Dynamic News Stories
Subject:		They Do Have Structure
Date:		2006-05-18 06:09:35
From:		Len Bullard
You can't count on it being right particularly in web articles where the majority of authors are amateurs, but a well-written news story does have a structure known as the inverted pyramid. http://www.teachervision.fen.com/journalism/writing/6042.html The problem is that no text is actually unstructured. It may be untagged or unprofessional.

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• They Do Have Structure
  2006-05-18 08:01:59 adrian_h
  
  You're right that many articles use inverted pyramid, but feature articles tend not to. Another popular style is the "Wall Street Journal feature" style, in which you start with a story and don't get to the main point until about 5 paragraphs in.