Five Most Important Differences Between Print and Web Wrting

When it comes to newspapers and magazines, readers are usually looking for all of the details behind a story, like reading a book. In web writing, readers not only want details, but they want it right away.

Writing for Print

• Significant information; what is important and how.
• Descriptive details that describe and explain the story you are writing about. 
• Quotes that contribute and help piece your story together to give the reader other people's point of view.
• Impact of how it affects the readers
• Attribution; who said what in your story. Don't use unnamed sources without permission from your editor

Also, be clear in your stories. You can always have a lot of information, but don't bore the reader by clumping it all together. Spread out your information and look over what is relevant and what is not.

Writing for Web

• Priority: this changes the audience, market and publication. What is the most important information the reader should know? Think of the inverted Pyramid, only in this new version you have:

Lede

Summary (nut)

News

Context

Significance, Scope, Impact

Anchor Quote

General Attribution

Transition to whats to come

News bit

News bit, etc.

• Efficiency: write and organize material for the fastest understanding. Write for "snapshot" reading and scans. Make the text easy to scan.
• Clarity: Make understanding immediate and easy. Be literal, repetitive and specific.
• Brevity: Leave modifying or qualifying phrases to the end of sentences when possible. One main idea at a time.
• Audience: Remember who you are writing for.Why should this story matter to them? Would this particular group be interested in this story?