People have a tendency to tell stories chronologically. Newswriting style is not chronological. The inverted pyramid turns storytelling on its head. Picture an upside-down triangle: the broad base ...

The typical inverted-pyramid news article is like airplane food — edible but to no one’s taste. Since its inception in the 1800s, the story format is a functional, practical way to organize ...

This standard technique is known as "the inverted pyramid ... without these sources many stories would not see the light of day." One example was the news of the second lockdown in November ...