The inverted pyramid structure is a structural form in which news facts are written sequentially according to their news value, that is, their importance, freshness, and interest to readers.

Because this structural pattern is heavy at the front and light at the back, with a large top and a small bottom, it is called an "inverted pyramid".

It is a traditional message structure form that originated during the American Civil War in the 1860s.

When talking about the background of this structural form, William Metz, a journalism expert at the University of Nevada, said: “In the past, reporters wrote news in chronological order, and when reporting events, they wrote the latest developments at the end of the news.

But reporters during the Civil War sent most of their reports to the press via telegraph, which was new and unreliable at the time. It could break down, have its wires cut by the enemy, or be preempted by the military.

The news that the reporter was sending was interrupted. As a result, the latest news written at the end had no time to be published in the newspaper of the day. In order to avoid unpredictable things, the reporter began to put the most important news at the top.

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2. You can quickly edit and delete the last paragraph without affecting the whole text.

3. You can read quickly without having to read from beginning to end.

4. Such advantages are in line with the characteristics of "fast" news. Therefore, after the war, the inverted pyramid structure continued to be retained and promoted.