What are News Stories? News writers produce news stories.They are called “news stories” because they tell stories about actual people, places, events and things. Yet a news story is different than traditional stories, such as legends, fairy tales and other works of fiction. Those stories are usually much longer and are organized very differently. The job of a fictional story is to entertain and those stories can afford to deliver their main point at the end of the story, which is often why they begin with the phrase, “Once upon a time. . .”. A news story is almost the opposite. It is immediate and often delivers perishable information that may change moments later. It must compete with many other stories for a reader’s or listener’s attention, so it contains it’s punch line in the very first sentence. But a news story is different than other types of non-fiction writing because of “news”. If you read something and say to yourself, “I know that”, then what you’re reading probably is not news and can be considered a historical fact. So what are we going to do here at the L.P. Infotheque? La Paz is not blessed (or cursed) with head turning news. That’s the reason why we live here, the pace here is leisurely, folks don’t rush and that is the same with the news. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction might be the way to go… The potential for manipulating and distorting reality is given with the Paceños way of life! . And again, to be honest – that’s what most of the foreigners like here.

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