Journalism: Finding Your Angle
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A brief discussion on how providing angles that are often heavily driven by the trends of the given time when it comes to opinions and editorial pieces, can be considered prudent as that's what the audience might be veering towards. However, there's a tendency for such an approach to also become stale and inauthentic. As a result, rather than luring in readers or keeping them interested in a piece, said piece can end up being dismissed as a recycle of the same spin that is currently fashionable.
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For opinion pieces, feature writing and editorials, taking a popular angle on a developing story or piece of news can certainly be helpful in order to tap into a market, but this also risks getting caught in the trap of being too generic or predictable.
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Journalism has its share of dry and editorial segments, with the latter having become more popular and catchy in recent decades, while the former still remains essential when it comes to fact finding. The challenge faced by feature writers and those who excel with opinion pieces is not just the competition, but also the nature of how such pieces are viewed by the audience. Plenty of commentary is made about the sensational nature of opinion pieces, but then again, this is also difficult to avoid if one is to get noticed. That said, there has been a decline in public receptiveness to such journalism, in good part due to how events and developments are covered in a story-based and topical manner often centred around a popular theme. Devon Powers coined the term "Trend Journalism" to refer to and critique a portion of this phenomenon in ...
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