Issues Not News: How Explaain Wants to Reinvent the Online Article

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by: Catalina Albeanu | Journalism.co.uk

Most journalists are taught how to write news articles using the 'upsidedown pyramid' model – put the most noteworthy or newsworthy information first and leave context and background for later.

But this is not always the best way to introduce a reader to a topic. So Jeremy Evans, a journalist previously with ITV and Tech City News, has set up Explaain, a new site with articles that he describes as "issues, not news".

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