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Angle

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

/ˈæŋɡl/nounCommon term

In journalism & media, angle means: The particular point of view or focus a journalist chooses for a story, which decides which facts and voices come first.

In Turkish: haber açısı, bakış açısı, çıkış noktası

How it is used

Editors ask what's the angle? or ask for a fresh, local or human angle. The same event can be told from a business angle, a consumer angle or a local angle depending on the audience.

Example sentences

  1. Everyone has covered the price rise; find a local angle for our readers.

  2. The new angle was how the closure affects students who travel by bus.

Common collocations

  • local angle
  • fresh angle
  • human angle
  • find an angle
  • news angle
  • leadThe opening sentence or paragraph of a news story, which gives the most important facts and makes the reader want to continue.
  • newsworthyInteresting or important enough to be reported as news, for example because it is new, unusual, local, surprising or affects many people.
  • featureA longer article that explores a person, place, trend or issue in depth, often with description, background and human stories rather than only the latest facts.
  • follow-upA new story that reports later developments of an event already covered, such as the results of an investigation or how people's lives changed.

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