Wikinews:Who What When Why Where and How
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I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who. |
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—Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child - 1902 |
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The 5 W and H, as immortalised in Kipling's quote, are one of the cornerstones of journalism. A good news article strives to answer as many of these as possible in the lede, leaving the rest of the article for additional details and context.
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