Reading News Reports

9. READING NEWS REPORTS

News reports are found in newspapers and their purpose is to inform readers of what is happening in the world around them. News reports have a certain structure that you need to follow. This structure is sometimes called the Inverted Pyramid.

To read newspapers online for free, search for newspaper websites and online archives of newspapers.

Websites that contain searchable newspaper archives include:

1. Ancestry.com.

4. Newspapers.com.

2. Genealogy Bank.

3. MyHeritage.com.

5. Newspaper Archive.

Make sure report answers 5Ws, 1H

✓ You will also need to find out:

✓ What? The specific event that took place.

✓ Who? The people involved.

✓ Where? Places.

✓ When? Date and time.

✓ Why? Reasons for the event taking place.

✓ How? Connecting the facts.