What Is Reporting?

• 6 questions that must be answered to complete a report are:
• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• Why?
• How?
• How much? How many?
• Clean cut statistics are useful in introductions and headlines.
• Specific
• Enable the reader to assess the importance of the story.
• Attribution
• Who is telling us the information?
• Essential to a news story.
• The presentation of information is often split in a specific way.
• Who did what/had what done to them?
• Then comes the when, where, why and how.