The lead paragraph is the first one in a news story. Usually, the lead is one sentence long and summarizes the facts of the news story in order of most newsworthy to least news-worthy (-Knox). The lead paragraph should not tease
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at the beginning or summarize at the end, as you sometimes see on television news. Instead, the author should lay all his/her cards out on the table, so to speak. The lead paragraph should include the “who, what, when, where, why, and how” of the story (-Cigelske). Depending on the elements of news value, the summary news lead emphasizes and includes some or all of these components