journalism - Writing features, reviews and press releases

Writing features, reviews and press releases

• Facts

• Quotations

• The inverted-pyramid structure

Where would you not expect to see a feature?

• On the front page of a newspaper

• In a trade magazine

• On the BBC website

Writing a review does not normally involve:

• Informing

• Interviewing

• Critiquing

When would you not issue a press release?

• Just before World Autism Awareness Week

• Just before the celebrity you represent appears in court for drink driving

• Just before a major government policy change

You are writing a press release on an upcoming music festival. What should you not include?

• Your name and contact number

• The line-up of musicians

• A report of the same festival held last year