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	Poynter Online - Chip On Your Shoulder
		The inverted pyramid puts the most newsworthy information at the top, and then the remaining information follows in order of importance, with the least important at the bottom.
		The inverted pyramid, or at least its most substantial element "the summary lead," is used widely and is one of the most recognizable shapes in communications today.
		Critics of the inverted pyramid say it's outdated, unnatural, boring, artless, and a factor in the declining readership that newspapers have been grappling with for decades.
	www.poynter.org /column.asp?id=52&aid=38693 (1034 words)

	SNN Newsroom - Reporters Toolbox-Inverted Pyramid
		But many reporters still use the inverted pyramid technique to organize their stories and ensure that the most important information goes at the beginning of the story.
		In a hard news story, the body supports the lead and in the classic inverted pyramid style is organized so that the facts and quotes are written in declining importance.
		Inverted pyramid stories don't need a strong ending since those hard news stories simply end when there is nothing more to say.
	www.snn-rdr.ca /snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/invertedpyramid.html (962 words)

	'Pyramide Inversee' of laminated glass brings light down to the Louvre's new underground complex
		The Inverted Pyramid forms part of the Phase II government renovation of the most famous museum in Paris.
		The panes comprising the pyramid's upturned base are contoured with a 350mm rise above grade for drainage and a waterproof skin of suspended, double-laminated lozenge panes.
		Pei's Inverted Pyramid was a finalist in the 1995 Benedictus Awards.
	www.dupont.com /safetyglass/lgn/stories/0409.html (266 words)

	Inverted Pyramid Format
		To understand what the "inverted pyramid" name means, picture an upside-down triangle -- one with the narrow tip pointing downward and the broad base pointing upward.
		When you write a story in inverted pyramid format, you put the most newsworthy information at the beginning of the story and the least newsworthy information at the end.
		If a story is written in inverted pyramid format, the editor can simply trim the story one paragraph at a time, going from the bottom up, until the story is the right length.
	mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11178 /171/pyramid.htm (0 words)

	invertedpyramid
		There ARE other emerging writing styles for newspapers, but the inverted pyramid is such a stable and reliable form, it is the first you should learn.
		The base of the pyramid is now on top (or at the beginning of a story) instead of at the bottom.
		With an inverted pyramid story we give away the solution (or in our case a summary) at the very beginning.
	academics.smcvt.edu /dlynch/invertedpyramid.htm (0 words)

	ASNE - Writers should avoid the perverted pyramid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The inverted pyramid has a deadly assumption built in: The reader read the paper yesterday or is a news junkie.
		The pyramid assumes the reader knows the background, whereas we know readers do not read the paper every day, look at very few of the stories, and read very little of the ones they do look at.
		Many journalists confuse the inverted pyramid with the hard-news lead, which is only part of the form, and also one of its problems.
	www.asne.org /kiosk/editor/99.mayjune/fry1.htm (680 words)

	The Inverted Pyramid for Solid Waste Management (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the narrow bottom of the inverted pyramid is waste minimization at source.
		A second aspect to note is the technical inputs needed increases at the upper levels of the pyramid, than at the lower level.
		The Inverted Waste Pyramid provides a big picture in the solid waste management process, and helps in understanding the different inputs and and advantages/disadvantages of each level.
	www.gdrc.org /uem/waste/inverted-pyramid.html (315 words)

	Avoiding The Perverted Inverted Pyramid - Free Article On Empowerment
		Inverting the organizational pyramid brings with it the notion of empowerment, in the service of bener organizations.
		If you are a regular reader of our publications, you will be aware that we are firm supporters of inverting the pyramid, empowering staff, and moving responsibility and decision-making down to the people that are in contact with the recipients of government services.
		The truth is that many organizations begin the inverted pyramid journey, but few actually succeed in reaping the benefits of the effort.
	performance-appraisals.org /Bacalsappraisalarticles/articles/pyr.htm (1629 words)

	Poynter Online - Birth of the Inverted Pyramid: A Child of Technology, Commerce and History
		The inverted pyramid might not have happened were it not for the invention of the telegraph.
		A popular myth about the inverted pyramid holds that it came about during the American Civil War (1861û1865) when reporters in the field who relied on the telegraph had to make sure they sent the most important news first in case the wires were cut.
		It came later than that, and a young journalism historian named David T. Mindich makes a persuasive case that “the inverted pyramid was born with the coverage of Lincoln’s death.” (“The Evolution of the Summary News Lead” challenges Mindich's theory of the inverted pyramid's history.
	poynter.org /column.asp?id=52&aid=38696 (1067 words)

	Writing Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace (Alertbox)
		This style is known as the inverted pyramid for the simple reason that it turns the traditional pyramid style around.
		On the Web, the inverted pyramid becomes even more important since we know from several user studies that users don't scroll,(*) so they will very frequently be left to read only the top part of an article.
		Each page would be structured as an inverted pyramid, but the entire work would seem more like a set of pyramids floating in cyberspace than as a traditional "article".
	www.useit.com /alertbox/9606.html (0 words)

	Flexographic Printing
		The cells in a mechanically coated anilox are in the form of an inverted pyramid.
		The conversion is Cell volume/Area(µ) = 1.55BCM Since the opening is the base of the inverted pyramid, it is the part most sensitive to wear.
		C) A Quadrangular or Quad cell is a truncated inverted pyramid.
	www.wmich.edu /ppse/flexo/pp9.htm (850 words)

	notes on "idea: inverted inverted pyramid"
		The pyramid reference may allude to something I'm not familiar with.
		I suggest those be chopped up and sprinkled into the story if you want to invert the inverted pyramid.
		And, the pyramid is important for news -- making readers wonder, Why is this important, is never good (nor though is drilling them with phony importance).
	notes.torrez.org /2006/11/idea_inverted_i.html (0 words)

	ADVANTAGES OF THE INVERTED PYRAMID STYLE
		The inverted pyramid method of story construction is a valuable tool to the makeup person who is confronted with an eight-inch story and only six inches of column space.
		If the story has been written in inverted pyramid form, it becomes a simple matter of cutting lines of type from the bottom of the story until it fits the available space or "jumping" (continuing) the story on anothe page - all without damage to the important facts that appear at the top.
		If a story is written in the proper inverted pyramid style, the copyreader (who writes the headline) can find these facts in the first paragraph.
	www.tpub.com /journalist/11.htm (488 words)

	Inverted Pyramid Writing - Techiques To Help Influence A Site's Relevance
		According to the thread, "Inverted Pyramid Writing uses the first paragraph of a page to serve as a concise summary or abstract of the page content".
		One of the members explains that in newspapers inverted pyramid writing serves a couple of purposes.
		One, to give readers enough info right away to get them interested in the story (or decide they're not interested, and go on to the next article), and to be sure the most important part of the story actually made it into the paper.
	www.seroundtable.com /archives/003449.html (789 words)

	Halfbakery: Giant Inverted Pyramid
		Now, if this inverted pyramid was completely self sufficient, a beackon to the new age of fully autonomous technology, then that would be something.
		How about a building that looks like a giant inverted pyramid, but that actually has an invisible force field sphere circumscribed around it so it is in fact spherical.
		Scientists are still unsure how they were able to build the pyramids with such precision and without the use of adhesives to hold the blocks together.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Giant_20Inverted_20Pyramid (778 words)

	La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid) and The Da Vinci Code
		La Pyramide Inversée was designed by the architects I.M. Pei, Cobb Freed and Partners, and installed as part of the Phase II government renovation of the Louvre Museum, which included the main glass pyramid.
		In 1995, the Inverted Pyramid was a finalist in the Benedictus Awards, described by the jury as "a remarkable anti-structure...
		As for the Inverted Pyramid, Aurillac notes that it lies on the so-called Paris Meridian (the "Rose Line" of The Da Vinci Code), to which a deeper, esoteric significance is sometimes ascribed.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /france/paris-louvre-inverted-pyramid.htm (1184 words)

	The salles rouges (red rooms) and the Inverted Pyramid \| Musée du Louvre
		This is the part of the museum that is nearest to the place where The Da Vinci Code ends: the Inverted Pyramid, whose glass belly can be seen through the windows, in the middle of the Rond-Point.
		The Inverted Pyramid is located in the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall inaugurated in 1993 that adjoins the Hall Napoléon of the Louvre.
		But 1.2 kilometers from the Inverted Pyramid, in the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (the Madeleine), there is a reliquary containing the left thighbone of a woman aged around fifty, who died nearly twenty centuries ago.
	www.louvre.fr /llv/activite/detail_parcours.jsp?CURRENT_LLV_PARCOURS<>cnt_id=10134198673458526&CONTENT<>cnt_id=10134198673462112&CURRENT_LLV_CHEMINEMENT<>cnt_id=10134198673462112&bmUID=1153199847779&bmLocale=en (586 words)

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