The Five W's Of Journalism

Greetings Everyone,


I just recently signed up for the Forbes magazine and I was pleasantly surprised that I’m actually enjoying and understanding a decent amount of the articles.

Well I read this article from Lewis D’Vorkin and he mentioned briefly about the Five W of journalism http://www.forbes.com/sites/lewisdvorkin/2012/08/13/inside-forbes-a-new-language-of-journalism-speaks-to-the-rebirth-of-a-profession/

Thinking about the five W reminded me what my friends Jim Canterucci  writes in his book Personal Brilliance chapter 8 Thinking like a child page 77 (this is my favorite chapter) 

how children are naturally curious and how they dissect everything in bits by asking all kinds of questions (you can find out more about Jim at his website http://www.mypersonalbrilliance.com )and how children naturally are like miniature reporters, constantly  using  the Five W.

And in my head I heard that click that means a new post for my blog is in the making and here it is.

 Aren't we all reporters and journalists?  Aren't we are all writing up the story of our lives? Each day that passes another page gets written and the choice is up to us, are we going to be from these lousy reporters that have a bias view on the stories they report on  and have distorted or wrong facts or we are going to ask the right questions and seek the true answers that will enrich and educate and make the story worth reading.

Look around on the  people you know that had some measure of success, and you will see usually they had a definite and precise goal they wanted to achieve and had a step by step action plan how they were going to achieve it.

Its actually a bit amusing I recently started asking people I meet if they have a dream or something they would like to achieve, the common answer is they don’t know anything specific what they would like to do to excel in their life, or the answer to my question is, they don’t know or don’t believe they can achieve what they want.

The five questions of journalism have the power to shed new light in your life and have the power to energize you and give you a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

 Here they are as follows

Friend, writer, author, you have now the tools of your trade so go write that breaking story of your life, that will change you and maybe even change the world.

Wishing you the best and if you enjoyed the post please share it with your friends,
Pinny
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