Journalism Basics
By Rob Golub
This site serves everyone from experienced to new journalists, to even those who are just journalism curious.
If you could use a journalism 101 guide, a walkway to some core ideas, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve been training new journalists for 20 years. This page is meant to serve as a rapid initiation into written journalism. For that, one of the most important concepts in written journalism is the nut graph.
The nut graph is the starting point that launches every great story. If you want to do written journalism, you must understand the nut graph. So that's where we'll start:
- What is the nut graph?
- Is the nut graph always the second paragraph?
- What are the Ws? Should they be part of the nut graph?
More lessons in basic journalism in the months to come ..