Ok, here’s a graphic with the most basic elements of an inverted pyramid. In Just the Facts David Mindich argues that the style was invented not by journalists, but by Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton. To validate this claim, Mindich studied several newspapers during the period between the 1840s, 1850s and 1860s, … Continue reading The Inverted Pyramid
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