Scorum Survival: Types of Sports Articles (What should you focus on?)
Scorum users are increasing daily and soon getting upvotes will be hard if you haven't defined what your purpose for signing up is. The bulk of content churned out by the 12000+ users will increase and many posts will end up being ignored because there are better ones to curate.
This post sheds light on what you should know to have a blog worth reading. If you've checked my blog, you'll notice that I'm more concerned about tutorials, meetups and african heritage. I have a few more on my list and in order to succeed, I organize my ideas and writings in series.
Back to the main topic:
For articles that get ignored, it is usually due to poor writing.
Many Scorum writers who have failed to define their major goal/purpose will not be able to stand the test of time. As an early adopter, what should you focus on to stand out?
It is important to know that bad writing kills.
Types of Sports Article
In journalism, there are two major types of articles which are:
1. Hard news and
2. Soft news
What is Hard News?
Hard News is factual and relies on timeliness. Its purpose is to inform the reader. Soft news, however, does not need to be timely. Its purpose is to entertain the reader or give advice. For example, an article about the Chesterville Cheetahs winning the high school championships would be a hard news story. A profile about the Chesterville Cheetahs’ star player, whose mother and grandmother also won the same title, would be a soft news story.
Writing hard news articles
Hard news is read quickly, so the most important facts must come first. In journalism school, they call this the “inverted pyramid”. The first paragraph contains the most important information (who, what, where, when, why, how) and the following paragraphs add an increasing level of detail. The reader could read just the first paragraph and come away with a good idea of what happened.
Hard’ news demands immediate reporting due to its importance and short lifespan (continuing stories tend to follow shortly). ‘Soft’ news, they argue, has little or no intrinsic social or personal importance, so that it can be reported on at any time (if at all).
factual nature of ‘hard’ news as compared to the subjective, colorful or offbeat nature of ‘soft’ news. Patterson (2000) characterizes ‘soft’ news as having sensationalist elements regarding famous personalities, utilitarian in nature (personally useful for the common reader), and/or based on a specific event (unconnected to any social trend or ongoing story).
Full article on: https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@jotmax/scorum-survival-types-of-sports-articles-find-your-focus
Scorum users are increasing daily and soon getting upvotes will be hard if you haven't defined what your purpose for signing up is. The bulk of content churned out by the 12000+ users will increase and many posts will end up being ignored because there are better ones to curate.
This post sheds light on what you should know to have a blog worth reading. If you've checked my blog, you'll notice that I'm more concerned about tutorials, meetups and african heritage. I have a few more on my list and in order to succeed, I organize my ideas and writings in series.
Back to the main topic:
For articles that get ignored, it is usually due to poor writing.
Many Scorum writers who have failed to define their major goal/purpose will not be able to stand the test of time. As an early adopter, what should you focus on to stand out?
It is important to know that bad writing kills.
Types of Sports Article
In journalism, there are two major types of articles which are:
1. Hard news and
2. Soft news
What is Hard News?
Hard News is factual and relies on timeliness. Its purpose is to inform the reader. Soft news, however, does not need to be timely. Its purpose is to entertain the reader or give advice. For example, an article about the Chesterville Cheetahs winning the high school championships would be a hard news story. A profile about the Chesterville Cheetahs’ star player, whose mother and grandmother also won the same title, would be a soft news story.
Writing hard news articles
Hard news is read quickly, so the most important facts must come first. In journalism school, they call this the “inverted pyramid”. The first paragraph contains the most important information (who, what, where, when, why, how) and the following paragraphs add an increasing level of detail. The reader could read just the first paragraph and come away with a good idea of what happened.
Hard’ news demands immediate reporting due to its importance and short lifespan (continuing stories tend to follow shortly). ‘Soft’ news, they argue, has little or no intrinsic social or personal importance, so that it can be reported on at any time (if at all).
factual nature of ‘hard’ news as compared to the subjective, colorful or offbeat nature of ‘soft’ news. Patterson (2000) characterizes ‘soft’ news as having sensationalist elements regarding famous personalities, utilitarian in nature (personally useful for the common reader), and/or based on a specific event (unconnected to any social trend or ongoing story).
Full article on: https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@jotmax/scorum-survival-types-of-sports-articles-find-your-focus
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