Wikinews:Briefs

A news brief or short is a very short update on some news, the equivalent of a on Wikipedia. Wikinews would like to expand all briefs into full articles, so if you have information to add to a brief, please do so. Once you have expanded the news article enough, you can remove the expand template.

However, a very short article should still meet the Content guide before being published.

= Writing guidelines for Briefs = Guidelines from User:tomg:


 * 1) Read what you write aloud! Edit the language so it is easy to read and be understood.
 * 2) Short is always best - never make sentences too long. They're difficult to read and often even harder to listen to.
 * 3) Start vague - always begin with very broad language, a basic statement of what's happened. As few names, facts, details as possible.
 * This is the opposite of writing news for normal print. The reason why is the brief may be used as the script for Audio Wikinews, as well as a news summary. The inverted pyramid style of writing does not work as well for listening to news as it does for reading news.
 * 1) Be careful with quotes - attribute the quote before reading it so listeners know it's a quote. Never start a news story with "'EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE' said some random mad scientist".
 * 2) Read Basic Radio Journalism.

=List of latest stubs=  category=Stub addfirstcategorydate=false count=100 suppresserrors=true namespace=Main 

=List of Briefs and Shorts=

2005

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2006

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2007

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2008

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2009

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2010

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2011

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2012

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2013

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2014

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2015

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2016

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