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The idea is to create an online magazine with articles of a reasonable quality centered around the topic of children placed in to care. Articles may address child welfare, family law, civil law, human rights, resources and rehabilitation, coercion, psychology, parenting skills, social stigma, separation and assembly, power, care and love.

Klip-Nordic Journal publishes in all the Nordic languages ​​as well as Greenlandic and English.

The Klip-Nordic Journal is 100 percent based on user-generated content and everyone is welcome to post.

As an aid and inspiration for writing, we provide an overview of some well-known journalistic genre.  Choosing a journalistic genre can be a good help for writing.

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We receive submissions in Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic.  Proofreading will only take place to a very limited extent.

We accepts post that has been rejected by other media, but if an article has been accepted and published by a commercial media we as not allowed to publish it because of copyrights. 

We do not publish posts that we believe violate Klip-Nordic's basic values ​​which you can read about here.

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Review of journalistic genre

News article:

Characteristics: Treat the case objectively from the angle decided by the journalist;  consists of minutes and citations from sources;  follows the news triangle and gives the reader answers to the "wh" questions (what, when, why, who..) already in the heading and sub-heading;  meets all of the news criteria;  is often equipped with press photos;  is the most common genre in the newspapers.  #Function: Tells in a quick and clear way about something new that has happened or emerged.  #Composition: Most often make use of the news triangle.  #Language: Is referential and sober and without any real narrative voice;  has short, active sentences and prominent use of quotes (which need not be referential and sober).

 The note:

 Characteristics: Are ultra-short news articles with equally short headlines;  often consists solely of minutes without quotes from sources;  meets few or only news criteria;  is usually rendered as plain text without images or graphics.  #Function: Tells a less important, yet startling news with no further perspective.  #Composition Is an ultra-short news article, often without a sub-heading.  #Language short, active sentences, often without the use of quotes.

 Reporter:

 Characteristics: Is objective but with the journalist's own observations and senses as a means of action;  is written in a vivid way so that the reader can easily see the place and the situation individually;  has quotes from multiple sources;  is often written according to the dresser model with a clear angle.  #Function: Depicts and documents in an in-depth way that the reader can experience. #Composition: Make frequent use of the dresser model.  #Language: Always contains quotes and descriptions of places, environment and people based on the journalist's senses (e.g. the sound of explosions from a war zone).

 interview:

 Characteristics: Includes quotes in other journalistic genres;  is also an independent genre with many sub-genres, such as portrait interview, case and vox-pop;  is a managed, edited conversation between the journalist and the source;  may contain journalist questions that may have been cut out of the text or brought as a question-answer.  #Function: depicts, informs and documents in an authentic and vibrant way;  may have a topic that may be the source itself or a case on which the source makes a statement.  #Composition: Both the news triangle, the dresser model or the feature wheel according to the sub-genre.  Can also be brought as question-answer.  #Language: Comes close to the spoken language, as the source's statements are the main element of the interview.  The journalist can use his own observations and reflections as part of the linguistic instruments.

 Background article:

 Characteristics: #Feature: Extends and perspects a news;  or a trend;  is thoroughly researched and uses many sources;  has facts and history as important elements;  written with neutral language and without dramatic means #Function: Goes behind a news or trend based on facts and history;  is most often used as a background for news articles.  #Compostion: Commodity models.  Usually supplemented with fact box / graphics #Language: Have a sober and

 explanatory language with long sentences with explanatory explanations.

 feature:

 Characteristics: Is a long story form in narrative style;  treats trends and background matter - rarely contains news;  makes use of a clear narrative voice, and use of, for example, internal vision is not uncommon.  #Function: illuminates a case or trend;  gives rise to reflection and debate.  #Composition: Feature Wheel - Show it - Tell It!  Scenes and perspectives show the story.  Reconstruction of events is common.  #Language: The style is narrative;  contains please

 literary tools to describe time, place, people and environment.

 The Portrait Interview or Portrait

 Characteristics: Going close to the HUMAN behind typically famous people;  builds on background research and interview with the person himself;  are often brought with pictures or series of pictures;  contains the journalist's observations and zooms in on details that can describe the whole person;  is usually loyal to the person's #Function: Displays several pages of a most well-known person.  #Composition: builds in different ways.  The interview itself is often used as a framework for several smaller stories.  #Language: Has the source's statements as the main element of the interview, which therefore comes close to the spoken language.  The journalist can use his own observations and reflections as part of the linguistic instruments.

 Chronicle:

 Characteristics: Is the newspaper's longest opinion article;  has no fixed form, but fixed length and placement in the newspaper;  contains topics and attitudes that are expertly as well as personally elaborated.  #Function: Provides writers with outside knowledge with a special knowledge and attitude to express themselves.  #Composition: Free composition.  The chronicle can be written as an essay, a speech, a letter, etc.  Most often, however, is reminiscent of a long comment built on the dresser model.  #Language: Has a personal and reflected language depending on the form.

 The comment:

 Characteristics: Is about a current case or trend - in the newspaper or public debate;  treats its subject sharply and seriously with a review, analysis and assessment of the case;  contains both attitudes, reasoning and documentation;  is typically written by person with special knowledge or interest in the field.

 #Function: Provide outside writers with a special relationship with the topic space to comment and debate current topics.  #Composition: Usually follows the recipe: Problem statement - argumentation - solution proposal.  Can be written over the dresser model.  #Language: Personal, rhetorical language.  Often with imagery and sharp pointers

 Reads the letter:

 Characteristics: Is not a fixed journalistic genre as it is written by readers;  Is current and essential for newspaper readers;  is short, mouthy and well-written;  is respectful, but preferably in a sharp humorous tone;  is well-argued, well-worded;  focuses on one

 single topic.  #Function: Allows newspaper readers to create and participate in public debate.  #Composition: Can be ultra-brief, but is usually built up by an assertion justified by one or two arguments and a conclusion.  #Language: Contains short sentences using everyday concepts in a spoken language style;  can be postulating and emotional.

 notification:

 Characteristics: Contains a neutral description of the notified;  uses images and metaphors that appeal to the reader;  incorporation into the notifier's experience of the notified;  is well-versed and nuanced in his arguments;  does not contain "maybe" ratings - must be clear and accurate;  perspective the notified in a way that enriches the reader's experience of the notified;  is borne by the personal commitment of the notifier;  is rarely constructed point by point, as is common in the school genre (1st Title, Author, 2nd Minute, 3rd Student Assessment).  #Function: Describes and assesses the person in a factual and personal way.  #Composition: Builds differently depending on what is being reported;  most often contains an objective description of what is being reported, eg food, movies, books and the like.  The assessment can be embedded in the description or eventually in the text.  #Language: Contains personalized language using both professional terms and nuanced adjectives.  I-form is common.

 The analysis:

 Characteristics: Presents and explains the background to a current issue or situation from a particular angle;  the angle is marked by the writer's own attitude to the matter, but the argumentation is factual and refers to the facts;  can be perceived as a mixture of opinion and information.  #Function: Explains and interprets the current topic from one or more points of view, thus addressing issues related to the topic.  #Composition: Typically constructed as a brief review of the topic, followed by the writer's attitudes and references to others' attitudes to the topic.  #Language: Contains a tangible and reflected language.  Professional expressions and objectivity signals are typical.

 The review of the journalistic genre is based on More Newspaper Naturally, Teacher's Guide © The Authors and The Danish Dance Association's Publishers, 2012