Six elements of news (that is, narrative elements): time, place, people, cause, process and result of events. That is, five "W" and one "H", that is, Who (who), What (what), When (when), Where (where), Why (why) and How (how).
A news report, whether news, newsletter or feature, generally contains these six elements. "Sparrows are small and complete", such as the following news, the six elements are very clear.
"After years of hard training, China athlete Liu Xiang finally won the men's 1 10 meter hurdles championship at the Athens Olympic Games on August 27th, 2004, and was called' Asian Flying Man' by the media."
Extended data:
Features: openness, authenticity, pertinence, timeliness, accuracy, distinctiveness, proximity, openness, extensiveness and variability.
Structure: Structurally, each news item generally includes five parts: title, introduction, theme, background and conclusion. The first three are the main parts, and the last two are the auxiliary parts. Titles generally include reference titles, main titles and sub-titles; Introduction is the first paragraph or sentence at the beginning of news, which briefly reveals the core content of news.
The subject is the backbone of the news, expressing the theme with sufficient facts, and further expanding and explaining the content of the lead; Background refers to the social and natural environment in which news takes place. Background and conclusion can sometimes be implied in the text. When reading news, we should pay attention to its six elements (that is, the six narrative elements): people, time, place, the cause, process and result of events.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-news