Empty dwellings surpass the amount of homeless people in Italy by 200 times

A street with camping tents used by homeless people

***Backup option for headline: There are more than 200 unoccupied dwellings per homeless person in Italy*** Italy’s homelessness crisis is not an issue rooted in lack of dwellings, rather in the absence of national housing policies, Airbnb’s and not trusting long-term tenants. Authors: Greta Hirschberg, Yuliia Kyzyk, Matteo Scannavini, Hongyu Zhang The amount of empty … Read more

Bloomberg 4-paragraph lead

• Headline: no more than 62 characters • Theme: what and why (or sometimes the “what and so what”) • Details: information that backs up the theme or more essential facts (where, when, why etc) • Quotation: a statement from an authoritative source • Nutshell paragraph: what’s at stake? why should people care about this … Read more

The Crouch news-writing algorithm©™®

First, decide: •Who is your news audience? •Why might they be interested in this? •What, therefore, is the most important news fact? •What, therefore, are the important secondary facts?  Then: •Write the headline first •Make sure the 5 Ws are in the first one or two paragraphs •Follow the inverted pyramid news writing structure, so … Read more

Data reveal how remote workers are leaving the cities since the pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic made remote workers reshuffle their travel destinations, new data reveal. Spain and Portugal are the new top-scorers, while major metropolitan cities, such as London and New York, have lost their attraction. The data collected by our journalism team clearly show a drastic increase in preferences for warmer countries – and a fatigue … Read more

News checklist

1. What are you presenting that is new, original, fresh, that nobody knew before? 2. Are you sure it is new? (Google!) 3. Can you write a Bloomberg 4-paragraph lead? If not, why not? 4. What is your main factual claim in a single sentence? (your “top line” – although not always your intro/ first … Read more

Negligent rape and negligent system: the flaws of the Swedish rape legislation

The new legislation against rape that came into force in Sweden in 2018 has led to a substantial increase in the reports of this crime. Despite this increment, the number of people convicted of rape remains low. According to the Swedish Amnesty International’s ambassador: “with 9668 reports but only 318 convictions on rape in 2021, … Read more

TEST IGNORE

Swiss Gold Skip to content Swiss Gold MIJ GOTHENBURG Title Goes Here Followed by the Subtitle Here . . . . . . . . . . . . Photo: SOURCE OF PHOTO HERE BY NICOLAS BERLINGER, SANDRA DANIEL, SARA ISTEFAN & KELSEY LESCOP JANUARY 4, 2023 | 16:00 CET PRESS PLAY TO LISTEN TO … Read more