In journalism there are six points that every journalist should know before writing their story:
1. Who?
2. What?
3. When?
4. Where?
5. Why?
6. How?
While these may seem like obvious points for any writer, and they are, for a journalist its doubly important, for you are telling a story that is truth, not fiction. (Well you should be anyway, unless you write for The Onion.) Every word counts toward the point in your article that you are making. While not all of the above is going to be used, you as the writer with all the knowledge behind what you are writing *should* know them. If leaving out a bit of information will help bring about a reaction needed, such as demands for more information regarding ethnic crimes in Eastern Europe or whatnot, then information should *judiciously* be removed. Do not remove too much however; the more blaise or generalized the information sounds, the less interested the audience will be. Make it personable, make the reader(s) *care* about what you are writing, and then you have pulled them in for the rest of the information you are sitting on in an article tomorrow or next week.