How to write a news story

Writing news stories for The Filipino Australian or for other news sites isn’t difficult. You will not become an expert news writer overnight, but with practice you should be able to create effective news items.
Here are some suggestions which you can also use if you are preparing a media release:
Remember the 5Ws and 1H
Even in [...]

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Apostrophes and Tagalog poetry

In earlier posts, we commented on poetry editing and punctuation, and grammar, spelling and poetry. In this post, I like to comment on the use of apostrophes.
When writing in the English language, we use apostrophes to:
- indicate possession (man’s car)
- indicate plural of lowercase letter and help avoid ambiguity (cross the t’s)
- indicate omitted letters [...]

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New rules to safeguard mobile users

“New mobile rules mean premium safeguards for SMS” – ACMA headline.
Nothing wrong with using premium mobile as long as the user knows that the usage rates are also at a ‘premium.’ And by ‘premium’ is meant rates higher than the standard rate. Based on our observations, SMS to premium mobile numbers to download ring tones, [...]

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