Newsbreak and genres

The informational genres-newspaper article, report, report, interview-are distinguished by their immediacy, by the presence of events in the material, by the consideration of a separate fact, phenomenon.

Most of the newspaper space is allocated to these genres. These are the genres that bring all the latest news to the audience. Some newspapers use the general term “news” to refer to them, often referring not just to the report of something new, but to a sensational fact.

Sensationalism is the best-selling commodity in the mainstream press. To the publisher, it increases the circulation of newspapers and makes a profit. The efforts of the reporters of these newspapers are aimed at providing each issue with unusual and exciting news. Stories about disasters and murders, fires and floods flood the pages of the newspapers. And if suddenly nothing happens, the sensations have to be made up by using rumors, etc.

News is the main genre in such a press. They take up more than half the space of the newspapers (not counting advertisements). Secular, scandalous news, political, economic, and sports reports fill numerous pages. The abundance of news means that many readers are limited to looking at the headlines alone or, at best, reading the first paragraphs in large print. The headline or the beginning of the story is made up of the most profitable, often irrelevant details. The reader, accustomed to the “inverted pyramid” principle (the main thing is communicated first, followed by less and less important details that make it easy to reduce material from the end for layout and layout), perceives them as the most important part of the message.

The journalist chooses the genre of material depending on its content, on how important, topical and interesting the found, selected facts are.