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The five boxes is an approach to news writing that abandons the old 5w's approach to presenting a news story. The 5w's dictates a journalist should tell his or her audience the "Who, What, When, Where, and Why" of each story in the first sentence (or sometimes two).
The five boxes dictates a more creative approach that is more readible and informative at the same time.
The first box is your narrative lead, usually one to two sentences.
The second box is a good quote and a tidbit of factual information about the story, a couple paragraphs presenting nuts and bolts to the story (excuse my spelling).
The third box is a sort of secondary lead, leading the reader into the fourth box.
The fourth box is more nuts and bolts, the final nuts and bolts of the story, sometimes several paragraphs.
The fifth box is the "kicker." It is designed to end the story with a "bang," leaving the reader thinking. This is often a really good quote or a fact that leaves the reader wondering. It can be anything so long as it wraps up the story nicely. In some cases, it can go back to the beginning, making the story a sort of loop.
The five boxes are just guidelines. It can be six boxes or four. The point is, you are breaking up the information and presenting the story in a more dynamic format, something that is more compelling than putting the entire bulk of factual information in the front of a story, which was done in old school newsrooms in case the entire story didn't come through on the wire (according to rumor) or in case they couldn't fit the entire story on the page. It was also thought, that readers of newspapers reading at a third-grade level, didn't care to go on past the nuts and bolts first sentence.
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