Journalism's future is clearly online, so it's important for any aspiring journalist to learn the basics of writing for the web.
Fortunately, newswriting and web writing are similar in many ways, so if you've done news stories, learning to write for the web shouldn't be hard.
Here are some tips.
Reading from a computer screen is slower than reading from a paper. So if newspaper stories need to be short, online stories need to be even shorter. A general rule of thumb: Web content should have about half as many words as its printed equivalent.
So keep your sentences short and limit yourself to one main idea per paragraph. Short paragraphs - just a sentence or two each - look less imposing on a web page.
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