My personal story writing style is very detailed. I like to be able to describe everything about the scene that I’m telling my readers about. Certainly, it is very important to tell what was said during the event being covered, who was at the event, etc. However, I feel it is also just as important to have the reader visualize in their minds as they are reading what you are describing to them.

One sees this type of writing in journalism to a certain extent as with the inauguration of Barack Obama coverage, for example. There were so many different articles in so many newspapers the next day. If you read even just a couple of them, you could get a sense of the setting during his speech. A few articles told about what he, Michelle Obama and other famous guests were wearing. Others told about the bulletproof shields that protected him and his family. You could visualize the President and his surroundings just by reading about it.

Providing such description to readers allows print journalism to better compete with television news media. They already have the competitive edge in that they can report breaking stories faster than newspapers. Just the click of a remote and you can see everything that is going on in the world at any hour. Good journalists should be able to describe the scene so that readers can visualize what is being reported on the same way if they watched the coverage on television.