features\ of\ newspaper\ style

- alleges and claims, restrictions of time and space

- special political and economic terms, non-term political vocabulary, newspaper cliches, abbreviations, neologisms;

- syntactic constructions, indicating a lack of assurance of the reporter as to the correctness of the facts reported or his desire to avoid responsibility;

- complex sentences with a developed system of clauses;

- syntactical complexes: verbal constructions (infinitive, participial, gerundial) and verbal noun constructions;

- specific word order - five-w-and-h-pattern rule: (who-what-why-how-where-when);

- attributive noun groups (e.g. leap into space age);

- headlines are the most concise;

- considerable amount of appraisal (the size and arrangement, the use of emotionally coloured words and elements of emotive syntax).

Source: I.R.G.

See: особенности газетного стиля, newspaper style