Newspaper Research 27/9/2010

The inverted triangle or inverted pyramid is another technique used by journalists and newspaper editors, it is a specific way of writing a story or article. The purpose of the inverted pyramid is to give the reader the most important and vital information first and then move onto the other less important information. The main reason this is done is so that the person reading article can stop at any point and not be confused and still understand what the article is about and means, this is done more specifically by giving the reader the information; who, what, when, where and how in the very beginning of the story. Another reason that the inverted triangle is used is because it allows the article to be edited and cut shorter to fit the allocated space very easily, whilst still retaining all the vital information and making sense.

This diagram shows how the inverted triangle style of writing is structured;