A Brief History of Narrative in Newspaper- Jack Hart

Jack Hart shows us that narrative style writing has been used as far back as the sixteenth century! I think that is so cool. He then gives us many more examples of narrative style news writing from the past, and he then shows us when narrative style news writing was not seen as proper news writing. Luckily a few non-fiction writers kept narrative style writing alive for future generations to admire.
I think John Hart does a good job showing us that narrative style writing was used in the past and is something that for centuries has been enjoyable reading. I , too, enjoy reading narrative style news articles because it reads more like an actual story than just simply facts strung together.
 In Jack Hart's next article, Nurturing Narrative in the Newsroom he writes about the importance of writing a 'story.' He says, "We call everything a story, whether or not it contains any true story elements" (233) I think this is a really a good point and one that is not really ever discussed. Many of the news 'stories' that we hear about do not really have some of the key elements a story must contain like an interesting plot, or a main character.
He then gives his readers key steps to do make sure your article is accurate. I guess his tip about cooperation with other departments. I like the idea of getting feedback from photographers, copy editors, and page designers. They will all bring different views to your piece of writing and will ultimately make the article look and sound perfect. I think it is important to get different kinds of people to read your writing because you will get such a vast amount of opinions and can get a more well rounded piece of writing.