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Kenya: Time And Tide Wait for No Pressman

13th Nov 2006, 16:21 GMT

Since I wrote on newspaper techniques, young journalists have e-mailed the question: If the telegraph was what necessitated the "inverted pyramid," why do editors still demand it? The "inverted pyramid" - to jog your memory - refers to the rule that all the important facts (like who, where and when) be bunched in the first few paragraphs of a news story. Is it necessary any more?

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