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Hi! This is Peggy Charlton for Expert Village on how to write news stories in journalistically
style writing. First example; if you are writing about a principal at your school you would
not say that John Doe is the principal of the school that is located 30 miles from Houston.
You would write John Doe, blank high school principal, just real concise. The average
newspaper is written for a 6th grade reading level. That is why they like to keep it simple
because we are trying to gear the whole public and there are people out there and a lot of
people in the public that do not have PhD's and college degrees. There are people who
finished high school or maybe who different finish high school is going to read the newspaper.
So the newspaper is written toward a 6th grade audience.