Peter
Chapman
Multi
Platform Storytelling
September
9,2013
Argus
Leader Article
The story about Wal-Mart in the
newspaper follows the pyramid style and with shorter sentences that give you
quick information. The many quotes are the only things that seem to slow down
the story. But otherwise it is the model for the modern newspaper. Both the
online version on the print version have the same body but different titles.
The newspaper has a large bold headline that attracts the reader’s attention.
Where as the online version has a longer headline that informs the reader more
about what they are going to read and presents the main point of the story. In
this way a person might not need to read the full article and the digital
version headline can be used as a tweet to get the news to the general public.
The published article and the blog
differ greatly. The blog starts off by saying what a hard day of work the
employee who has to verify the petition names has in order to introduce us to
the topic of the article. This is a slower way that the inverted pyramid style
and does not throw the information at you. Because it is a blog it tells more
of a story. Also the blog allows for information on what the legal process is
for the Save Our Neighborhood group if the petition does not meet the required
signatures. Jonathan Ellis uses another similar legal situation in order to
describe the process which gives credibility to his writing where as if he just
said what the process was it would not be as concrete of a detail.
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