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The Five Ws is a checklist used in journalism to ensure that the lead contains all the essential points of a story. As far back as 1913, reporters were taught that the lead should answer these questions about the situation being reported:
Applications, Origins in antiquity & Use outside of journalism
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| Five Ws | is a | checklist used in journalism to ensure that the lead contains all the essential points of a story | 0.90 | text |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | The Five Ws | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Greece | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Although | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Hermagoras | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Temnos | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Septem Circumstantiae | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Thomas Aquinas | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Aristotle | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Aristotle's | 0.60 | section |
| Five Ws | related to Origins in antiquity | Treatise | 0.60 | section |
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