NEWSpiracy Tutor Handbook EN

https://newspiracy.eu The project "NEWSpiracy" is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The content of NEWSpiracy is the sole responsibility of the project partners and neither the European Commission nor the Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE) is responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Project Number: 2022-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000089608 communication in general seeks to understand the communicator, the message, the medium, the audience, and the effect. Regarding a newspaper headline, the reporter serves as the sender, the content of the headline as the message, the newspaper acts as the channel, the reader is the audience, and the effect refers to how the reader reacts to the headline (Baldwin et al., 2015). In case you might find yourself as the reader, it is possible to transform most of these topics into a version that can be used to trust the information you are researching. According to Przybyła (2020), the connection between the writing style of a document and its credibility may not be applicable in all cases or permanent. The problem arises when the content is misleading, yet quality and style can be similar to those who are really reliable. The evidence is not enough yet to assure that writing styles can allow a reader to trust certain contents or not. Writing styles Even though, as stated above, writing styles are not the ultimate form of identifying credibility, there are certain traits that can help the readers to build trust into certain contents. Stepping aside from fake news and their intention of generating clicks and focusing on search engines’ results. Let’s take a look at how different writing styles can impact. Initially, as stated by Glovesnor Bleyer (1916), news stories could be categorised into four types of discourse: narrative, descriptive, expository, or a combination of these forms . Nowadays, more than just focusing on the type of discourse, some writers follow certain guidelines when writing a piece of news, either if it's for a feature in the newspaper, or a full research news piece. Bahr (2022) how for a well-known journalist in the New York Times he prepares his news by including at least 10 interviews, which may not even appear on the final article. Despite this being considered a long process, his 20 years of reporting experience have taught him the importance of doing extensive research before even beginning to write. During the process of writing, an experienced writer will resource to different items: interviews, notes from his research, best quotes, facts, and figures (Bahr, 2022). When it comes to news pieces, tradition sometimes wins and the inverted triangle figure is used: suspense is built from the start and facts are given in descending order of importance. The tone chosen for an article will definitely have an impact on the reader, which is why more or less personal flavour will entirely depend on the intention of the writer. The facets of news writing are discussed by Yang et al. (2021) where they mention that there are currently eight characteristics that have an impact on news quality: readability, credibility, interactivity, sensation, logic, formality, interestingness, and integrity. Some of these facets, such as readability and formality are used when analysing clickbait, others are proposed as part of having guidelines for news writing. News should then be clear and easy to read, logical and contextually coherent, rigorous and credible, mind the type of media where they will be posted, promote participation and interactivity in a discussion that derives from the news, description should be naturally interesting, emotions should arise from the news, and integral titles that isn’t clickbait (Yang et al., 2021). Summarising all of these features, more than just the writing style, news nowadays are more comprehensive in terms of offering not only a type of discourse, but other things that have become extremely relevant.