Shelly Fagan
Apr 11, 2024

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I worked in print journalism and we pasted up the newspaper with wax and razor blades.

The reason you put Who, What, Where… in the first paragraphs was because if you ran out of space, the people composing the paper cut from the bottom of the story. Take the last column and remove from the bottom up. That is why there is sort of a template to news stories, so you can cut off the last paragraph if you need to do so.

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Shelly Fagan
Shelly Fagan

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