What is most important to remember when writing a hard news article is to make sure it really is hard news. I'm going to say it's probably easy to mistake sommething you think is important as a hard news even when it may not be. You need to think about whether it's really news and whether it really matters. Maybe you could ask a few people if the think it's important.
After you know that it is hard news you need to make sure that you have your facts straight and that you can back it up. If your facts are wrong then the article is wrong. Spreading false information is, in my opinion, the worse thing you can do as a reporter/writer. If the article is wrong then it'll come back to bite you on the butt.
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