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1. Definition The chronicle is a direct and immediate narration of a news event with certain evaluative elements that must always be secondary to the narration of the event itself. The chronicle tries to reflect what has happened between two dates. Etymologically, the word chronicle derives from the Greek word chronos, which means time. This journalistic genre was a literary genre that served the chronicler to narrate the events in temporal order before journalism existed.

2. What is the chronicle about For El País, the chronicle is a style located halfway between the news, the opinion and the report. The style of the chronicle can be used in the case of extensive information transmitted by the foreign correspondent, the special correspondent to an event or sports, bullfighting or artistic commentators. On the one hand, the chronicle must contain news elements and, therefore, it will be titled as a general rule as information, but it can include analysis and, therefore, some opinion or interpretation. The author must, however, explain and reason the interpretations he/she expresses. It is not tolerable for a journalist to offer his/her own opinion without arguing in a chronicle. The informational requirements of rigor and editing in a chronicle are identical to the requirements of a news article. The chronicle must show an entertaining style, if possible with anecdotes and curiosities. It is a strictly news style valid for not extensive information that pays a lot of attention to the atmosphere. A chronicle should not forget the essential facts for readers who have not witnessed them. For El Mundo newspaper, the chronicle and the report are two names for the same genre because the only difference it establishes is that the report is longer than the chronicle. The newspaper says that the chronicle is a narrative with many more elements of the environment than the information. It is a typical genre of correspondents and special correspondents, as well as of certain chroniclers specialized in sports, bullfighting, culture or social life. What differences a chronicle from a news story?- One of the features that most differentiates these two journalistic genres are: the details of the environment. The journalist is where something has happened. Act as a qualified witness. Thanks to this, he/she can see details that will escape the rest of the eyes. The information won't be from the narrative point of view of that kind of divine voice that knows everything but never explains how it knows it. On the contrary, the chronicler seeks to mark his/her specific point of view in his/her text and

describe the news event down to the last detail so the reader can feel what he/she has seen. reality. A chronicle is a way of telling the reader: "I was there and that is why I can tell you this way." Or what is the same, that is why you can believe what I am telling you with absolute confidence. In short, the journalistic chronicle is a truly hybrid genre. It contains information because it has the immediacy of the news. It contains a description of atmospheres because it has the intention of recreating current affairs like a report. And it contains a certain degree of interpretation. In the case, for example, of the sports chronicle, the chronicler may come to make authentic subjective judgments that go beyond the field of interpretation.

3. Style and technique of production The style of the chronicle must be direct and essentially objective but, at the same time, it must reflect the literary personality of the journalist. There is no single and objective style for this genre. The text of a chronicle can include both information and assessment, it can be said that the style is freer than in other genres and that the objective and the subjective are mixed in an approach that tends to be full of personal appreciation. Regarding the production technique, various studies on journalism theory speak of freedom of choice as regards the internal structure of the chronicle. It is not necessary to resort to the inverted pyramid structure nor is it necessary to offer the events in a certain order, as is characteristic in the development of the news structure. The chronicles of the Spanish press do not respond to any previous order. As a result of this tendency to improvisation, Latin journalism lacks expository and technical rigor. It also lacks international prestige, although at the moment the situation has changed notably and you can read or listen and watch quality chronicles. Some authors like Martín Vivaldi assure that the good chronicler must start with what is most important, but he/she has all the freedom to deliver the news as he/she sees it and feels it. In a chronicle in digital format there are several ways to link with secondary details, for example through hyperlinks, photo galleries and other articles. Sometimes you can publish what is known as a previous chronicle, something common in the world of culture and which, as its name indicates, collects the events or data of interest prior to the main act. One of the main characteristics of the chronicle is that it is written about an event that the journalist has experienced. For this reason, the vividness of the chronicle has to be present already from the very signature of the journalist and must appear in each paragraph. The reader must have the feeling that he/she is stepping on the playing field or the stalls where the event takes place. 4. Types

The most frequent types of chronicle that we can consider are the following: judicial, event, sports, bullfighting, local, traveling, foreign countries, special correspondent, etc. It is interesting to start from a basic difference that divides them into two initial types: one that covers a place and one that covers a topic.

5. Useful topics These tips come from a lecture by the South Korean journalist and author Patrik Lundberg on March 28th, Utbudskväll for librarians, at Gothenburg City Museum (Sweden) . Top tips: ● Dare to give the content an angle (e.g. a personal point of view) ● Do not start from the beginning (e.g. start from the end and work back to the beginning or mix up the chronological order) ● The writing takes 20% of the time ● The editing takes 80% of the time ● Write what you meant, not what you thought Most important of all: Please always be kind and show respect towards other people....