Hi All,

Would someone be kind enough to give me some tips and info about newpaper english, especially with relation to the body of news? I know some tips about headlines, but need know about uses in the body of news - what I must pay attention to, what use indicates what, etc.

e.g. Assume a sentence in the body of a news is like this:

"Sentence, understands Pagliaccio."

Should I take, for example, the "understand" here really in the present tense - "understands"? Or depending on the context, it may be taken as "understood"?

Alernatively you could share some link with me, where I could find info about newspaper english.

Many thanks in advance.

Newspapers tend to talk in past tense - mainly due to the fact the in these days of "instant" news, it is a day old by the time it is read.

Thus news items tend to be past tense "Pagliaccio reported yesterday that...."....

However, present tense is used if describing current situations like..."the housing market is decreasing".

Newspapers should always be written in the 3rd person, unless you are writing a column.If I can be of any specific help, let me know. The following link may help:-

http://www.bl.uk/collections/sources.html

(Also - I know CultureSmart writes for the English Zaman. She hasn't been online for a while but could probably be contacted via Marion-In-Turkey)

Yalçın İzbul Hoca'nın mail grubuna katılırsan şu günlerde gazete haberlerini açıklamakta.
www.ingilizce-ders.com

I hope this will help you in some way.
Good luck!

http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/academy/writing.htm

http://www.kidzonline.org/jctraining/documents/2MakingHeadlines.pdf

Even though this one is for kids.

Breaking news!

Pagliaccio happy now.

Pagliaccio, who was so unhappy sometime ago, feel happy now and is smiling of happines, reported our TC reporter. He tells our reporter that he could then resume to do what he is to do, and added, 'Sure, I had to neglected to thank all people here who kindly helped me about newspaper english; but better late than never.' Feeling happy, he do thank people for their help, we understands.

NEWS UPDATE

Friends of Pagliaccio today expressed their delight as news broke of his new-found happiness.

"Its the best news I've had all day!" declared the beautiful, exquisite, intelligent AEnigma, "it really doesn't matter if his grammar was slightly flawed on this occasion, because we are just so pleased to see him full of joy".

Rumours that the dashing former poet had intended to send all his friends a bottle of champagne in celebration, proved to be unfounded

The story continues.

Did not have time to go to 'Red Carpet' store and borrowed from Sui.
He was very delighted to know that our friend is so happy and sent this champagne all the way from Austria.