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never heard of this style. afaik the "inverted pyramid" is the commonly-taught method for reporting in journalism schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

the whole point of this style is to remove all irrelevant information.

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Specifically for newspapers. Less so for magazines. Certainly it was followed fairly rigidly for historical wire service journalism because the newspaper using the copy would (literally) cut the article at a more or less arbitrary point to fill a space (between ads) in the paper. Obviously the constraints don't exist in the same way but writing from most important down to least important still makes sense for a lot of reasons.

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