Alternative story forms, ASF's, ALT's, storytelling devices - they go by different names and include everything but stories written in the traditional inverted pyramid style. NewsU's "Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms" will introduce you to the world of alternative story forms and show you how to add them to your writing, editing or designing repertoire. You'll learn how to select, write, edit and present a variety of alternative forms through various interactive games and activities.
"Beyond the Inverted Pyramid" will give you the tools you need to create effective alternative story forms. You'll learn to break down information by theme and organize stories to make them snappy and more useful to time-crunched readers. With a focus on the importance of newsroom collaboration, this course showcases a range of supplemental and standalone forms, demonstrates what forms work best with what story ideas and provides techniques for editing alternative forms for factual errors and other problematic copy.
This free course will take just an hour or two to complete. Enroll at www.newsu.org/asfs and take the course on your own schedule.
NewsU offers more than 60 focused, interactive courses that appeal to journalists at all levels of experience and in all types of media. NewsU is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The program is a project of The Poynter Institute, a leader in journalism training.
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