Templated Journalism Breeds Laziness: Person
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Former Queensland University of Journalism head, Professor Name has slammed new curriculae which embraces "mid-sentence quoting" and jargon in head pars as sloppy journalism, leading journos to be lazy in their newswriting.
The XX-year-old Professor said journalism students should be looking to do more, particularly with their second paragraph, before heading into their key quote.
"The key quote should be here. And this quote should be punctuated by an attribution to illustrate the key quote by the key person. It's important to do that to break things up especially if you have a three-line quotation for example," he/she said.
The professor also urged journalists to use a paraphrase sentence somewhere after the key quote, and slammed those who support templating newswriting techniques etc...
"Put in foreshadowing here," he/she said. "Templated writers lose the ability to use "word bridges" to link pars so I guess, I cannot mention foreshadowing enough here."
However, Opposition leader Kevin Rudd, the other source in the story, has rejected calls that foreshadowing has been lost within the new journo stuff, stating it is an integral part of leading into a statement quote.
"The thing about statements is this," Rudd said.
Mr Rudd's comments came after the introduction of foreshadowing earlier in the article, which was followed up by a review of the ongoing saga in this paragraph.
The next sentence has a key moment in it, when what was happening previous was changed when templating was introduced, which encourges journalists to put an insightful quote at the foot of the article.
However, Professor name should be the owner of this quote."I should say something quite poignant here" professor said. "But what's the point?"
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Former Queensland University of Journalism head, Professor Name has slammed new curriculae which embraces "mid-sentence quoting" and jargon in head pars as sloppy journalism, leading journos to be lazy in their newswriting.
The XX-year-old Professor said journalism students should be looking to do more, particularly with their second paragraph, before heading into their key quote.
"The key quote should be here. And this quote should be punctuated by an attribution to illustrate the key quote by the key person. It's important to do that to break things up especially if you have a three-line quotation for example," he/she said.
The professor also urged journalists to use a paraphrase sentence somewhere after the key quote, and slammed those who support templating newswriting techniques etc...
"Put in foreshadowing here," he/she said. "Templated writers lose the ability to use "word bridges" to link pars so I guess, I cannot mention foreshadowing enough here."
However, Opposition leader Kevin Rudd, the other source in the story, has rejected calls that foreshadowing has been lost within the new journo stuff, stating it is an integral part of leading into a statement quote.
"The thing about statements is this," Rudd said.
Mr Rudd's comments came after the introduction of foreshadowing earlier in the article, which was followed up by a review of the ongoing saga in this paragraph.
The next sentence has a key moment in it, when what was happening previous was changed when templating was introduced, which encourges journalists to put an insightful quote at the foot of the article.
However, Professor name should be the owner of this quote."I should say something quite poignant here" professor said. "But what's the point?"
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Line is a thing with a thing and a thing. Some of his other stories include things.
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