Highlights Practices of Web writing Presenter: Holly

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Highlights

• Practices of Web writing

Presenter Holly Phillips, Web Writer/Editor
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The Idea

• What is news?
• Eventstrends, issues
• Who cares?
• Interest
• Entertain
• Inform and educate

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Planning

• Calendar
• Weekly meetings

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The Inverted Pyramid

• Who, what, when, where, why, and how?
• The hurried reader
• Space

Sampras and Blake Duel for Gustav Relief The LSU
mens and womens tennis teams are joining up
with Pete Sampras and James Blake for the Duel
Under the Oaks II fundraising event December
14. The event, hosted by the Irene W. and C. B.
Pennington Foundation, provides support to
organizations who promote the overall well-being
of families and communities. The funds raised
will go toward grants to aid people impacted by
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
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The Feature
Quidditch team gains collegiate popularity LSU
offers many sports other than just football. Some
involve a track or a court, but one unique sport
requires a broomstick. Quidditch was invented
by British author J.K. Rowling in her Harry
Potter book series. However, fans of the movie
have taken this sport into their own handsor,
rather, feetand made it come alive. Last May,
several students in the Honors College started an
LSU Quidditch team. The original members were
mainly Harry Potter fans, but the team has grown
and includes a diverse crowd of about 20 members.

• Humanizes news
• Show dont tell
• Lighter, humorous moods
• The disclaimer
• Gold coins

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The Process

• Observing
• Interviewing
• Writing
• Packaging

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Observing
English professor recognized for Southern
fiction Books fill every inch of the
floor-to-ceiling shelves in her office. She is
sitting in a cherry wood chair, reading one of
her favorite books, Edward P. Jones All Aunt
Hagars Children. LSU English professor Moira
Crone looks up from the pages, her eyes wide.
Hes won a Pulitzer, she said. Hell be at the
conference. Crone and Jones, along with at
least 30 other distinguished writers, will travel
to the Arts Education Councils Conference on
Southern Literature in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on
April 2. The Fellowship of Southern Writers will
present the 2009 Robert Penn Warren Award for
Fiction to Crone during the conference,
recognizing her body of work.

• The idea returned
• Making news evergreen
• Research
• Description

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The Interview

• Prepping
• The last question
• A story is only as good as the interviews
  conducted by the reporter who is writing the
  story.

Golden Girls celebrate 50 years of an LSU
tradition At 13, Bogalusa native Tari Smith was
a self-proclaimed tomboy who enjoyed riding
horses and climbing trees. Occasionally, her best
friend would convince her to dance in her living
room and then say, Tari, youre really good at
this!
Restoring Hope Donn Young has been a
photographer for most of his life, never guessing
35 years of his professional work would be lost
in a storm. Three years ago, Youngs New Orleans
studio sat under 10 feet of water invited by
Hurricane Katrina.
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Writing

• Formula
• Hot
• Just write
• then edit

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Packaging

• Photos and captions
• Video
• Links
• Pull quotes

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The Conclusion

• Brainstorm
• Plan
• Observe
• Interview
• Write
• Package

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Highlights

• Practices of Web writing

Presenter Holly Phillips, Web Writer/Editor