Journalistic Article is a signed text that reveals the author's position on a specific topic, generally current or an event, either from a neutral perspective or from a subjective level, and which is exposed in some written communication medium.
Its main function is to inform, but it also supports critical evaluations and opinions on events and news. The elements that appear in the journalistic text are:
- Issuer: Collective. “When a specific person, journalist, editorialist, reporter and columnist who prepares the article, represents the interests of a certain editorial group.
- Recipients: wide and heterogeneous public, without having the possibility to respond or verify the veracity of the information. One critic pointed out that he can only verify the distance between what happened and how it appears in the press. Only then can we appreciate the distance between events and the way they are presented. This fact is verified by observing the different contents about the same event in different newspapers. Communication can be established through letters to the editor, but never a complete communication process.
- Channel: written press, Internet. It involves very complex technical means and processes. From the moment the newspaper is produced until it reaches the recipient's hands, it goes through several processes, saving very short temporal distances and very long spatial distances.
A particular modality is the article of criticism, which can be literary criticism, cinema, theater or any type of show (for example, in Spain and some Latin American countries bullfights are held). Regardless of genre, all newspaper articles are generally related to some aspect of today.
In the case of opinion articles, there is greater freedom in this regard. Usually, it is the person who signs the article who uses the type of writing with which they feel most comfortable. Therefore, we can find columnists who perform real literary exercises in a journalistic medium, while others prefer to stick to a less sophisticated language.
The title of a journalistic text should be done after writing the text and not before, because at the end of the writing, what may be most attractive to the reader will be taken into account. The topic can be summed up in eight or fewer words. It is preferable to use the verb in time present.
