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What is the inverted pyramid structure of a news report, and why is it used?
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Answer
The inverted pyramid puts the most important information — what happened, to whom, where and when — in the first paragraph, with progressively less important detail below. It is used so that a reader who stops after one paragraph still has the essentials, and so that an editor can cut from the bottom without losing anything vital.
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Explanation
A feature article, by contrast, often keeps its point for the end.
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