Basic Tips
A talented journalist can put together an amazing article on a late breaking news item in less than an hour. Not only is such a skill highly impressive, it is necessary in a fast paced, highly competitive field where many are constantly burning the midnight oil.
Unfortunately for many journalism school students and other writers, writing can be a slow moving, difficult task. Just organizing your thoughts and planning out your article can take hours if you do not manage time correctly, and collecting background information and conducting interviews can add several more hours of production time.
But none of this effort, stress, and time wasting is truly necessary. If you would like to ascend to the top of your journalism class, you must learn to write quickly and efficiently. Here are some pointers for writing and finishing an article in twenty minutes or less.