How do newspapers get stories?

Answer 1

People get their news from all different sources. For one, the internet is one main way people get updates on current events. News channels and news reports on television, magazines, and the newspaper are other ways people get their news.

Answer 2

Newspapers get stories through various means, including journalists conducting interviews, attending press conferences, monitoring social media, and receiving press releases from organizations and individuals. Additionally, newspapers may assign investigative journalists to research and develop original stories based on leads or tips.

Answer 3

It really varies. Some news outlets-- newspapers and news magazines, as well as TV and radio stations, have an entire staff of reporters and editors and photographers, who go out daily to find the big stories and report on them. In radio and TV, and at most daily newspapers, there is an "assignment editor," whose job it is to keep tabs on breaking stories and assign reporters to cover them. These editors use the police scanner, as well as making phone calls or checking various social media to see what the latest news is. Smaller publications, like blogs, might rely on "backpack journalists," which means a one-person operation where the reporter carries a camera, writes the story, takes the picture, and then reports it to the website.

As for other news stories, individual politicians, various civic groups, and advocates for particular causes will send out press releases to news departments when a special event is scheduled. The news department may decide to cover the event or may decide it is just an effort to get free publicity, in which case it will not be covered. Some newspapers and magazines also rely on "wire services," which refers to reporters who work for companies like Associated Press or Reuters (pronounced ROY-ters). They go to places where newspapers and magazines may not have the budget to send a reporter, and they send back stories their affiliates can use. And all news departments also sometimes receive tips from the public-- for example, a person might witness an accident and call it in to a newsroom, at which point the news team might decide to cover the story.

Answer 4

The journalists make them up by interviewing people, going to the scene where the story took place, and getting the facts by some source. If you want to be a journalist, good luck. You're going to have to be like a detective.

Answer 5

Journalists need information, stories and informed opinons. Hence the need for live as well as written sources.

Answer 6

I'm trying to find the same answer for a school project. I think they get their information from interveiws, other media coverage, digging around in the subject they're writing about ect.