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ENTREVISTA MAGDALENA ALBERO

WHY THE FUTURE IS

OURS TO MOLD

A N I N T E R V I E W W I T H A L E C A N T O I N E
B Y S A O R I S H I N J I R O

According to Wikipedia, a news article While a good conclusion is an important ingredient
for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline
discusses current or recent news of either
environment means that copy editing often takes
general interest (i.e. daily newspapers) or of a
the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary
specific topic (i.e. political or trade news
point in the story corresponding to the dictates of
magazines, club newsletters, or technology
available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper
news websites).
reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid
style, with all the most important information in the
A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses
first paragraph or two. If the less vital details are
to the happening event. It can contain photographs,
pushed towards the end of the story, then the
accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews,
potentially destructive impact of draconian copy
polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be
editing will be minimized.
used to focus the reader’s attention on a particular
(or main) part of the article. The writer can also give
According to Wikipedia, a news article discusses
facts and detailed information following answers to
current or recent news of either general interest (i.e.
general questions like who, what, when, where, why
daily newspapers) or of a specific topic (i.e. political
and how.
or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or
technology news websites).
A news article is usually on a well-defined topic or
topics that are related in some way, such as a factual
Quoted references can also be helpful. References to
account of a newsworthy event. The writer is
people can also be made through the written
objective and shows all sides to an issue.
accounts of interviews and debates.