Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Differentiate between Hard News and Soft News

Events like wars, terrorist attack, accidents, natural calamities ( like flood cyclone, earthquake etc), and riots which create excitement are Hard news. They are very important and based on events which have occurred very recently. Hard news must provide answers to the following questions- what happened? When it happened? Who were involved? and How it happened?

Soft news deals with topics like development, education, changes in society, nature and environment etc.

Hard news only informs the readers and does not educate them.

Soft news educate and inform the detail story of any topic. A suitable style has to be developed  to make soft news  interesting to the readers.

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