1 The development of the inverted pyramid is attributed to Edwin Stanton, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War (1865). See, for example, Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism by David T. Z. Mindich, New York University Press, 2000.

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