In journalism, the Five W’s (Also known as the Five W’s and one H, or Six W’s) is a concept in new sryle, research and in police investigations that rearded as basics in information gathering. It is a formula for getting the ‘full’ story on somethig. The maxim of the Five W’s and one H is that for a report to be considered complete it must answe a checklist of six questions, each of which comprises an interrogative word:
- Who is it about?
- What’s the story?
- Where did it take place?
- When did it take place?
- Why did it happen?
- How did it happen?
