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1.Journalists usually refer to what they write as stories. Not articles or reports, occasionally pieces, but stories. This does not apply only to reporters but to everybody in the editorial chain, from desk editors, copy editors, specialist and sports writers to the editor him or herself. Words published in newspapers, on air or online are stories.

Stories sound interesting; reports sound dull. To some, stories mean fiction: "Tell me a story, mummy". Stories are tall and short, made up and true. True stories are about what happened. We tell stories in conversation, recounting experiences and events in which we took part or observed. The crucial thing about a story is that other people want to hear it, because it is interesting or entertaining. Otherwise the storyteller is a bore.

2. “The purpose of journalism,” write Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel in The Elements of Journalism, “is not defined by technology, nor by journalists or the techniques they employ.” Rather, “the principles and purpose of journalism are defined by something more basic: the function news plays in the lives of people.”

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4. It represents the slow burn rather than putting the main point of interest in the intro. It is higher risk, because the golden rule of gaining and keeping the reader's attention paragraph by paragraph must still apply.

5. Non-fiction is everything that is not included in fiction. In the bookstore you will find the fiction section, which contains novels and short stories. The rest of the store in its entirety is nonfiction. This includes memoir, biography, cookbooks. self-help, art, photography, sports, technology, religion and much more.

Creative nonfiction is a relatively new genre. Creative nonfiction is based on a true story. But in the telling the writer resorts to memory or extrapolation based on the facts. 

Creative non-fiction is not making something up, but making the most of what you have.