[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Journalistic writing is a style of writing that is used to report news or stories in a variety of media formats. It is different from the other forms of literary texts. Unlike a short story, poem, or novel, a journalistic text is more closely related to essay. News reports, features, editorial, sports, and other columns in a newspaper or magazine are considered journalistic texts. 

Journalistic writing aims to quickly inform, entertain, and persuade. There are three types of journalistic texts. Print journalism. This type of journalism focuses on print media, such as newspapers and magazines. 

Broadcast journalism. This type of journalism is being broadcast on a radio, television, or other streaming media. Yellow journalism. This type of journalism uses exaggerating words or sensationalism and uses eyecatching heading. 

How to write a news article using the inverted pyramid. With the inverted pyramid, journalistic text is organized from the essential and most interesting elements of a story at the beginning, with supporting information following in order of diminishing importance.