Inverted pyramid

Rarity: Uncommon

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The inverted pyramid is a metaphor used by journalists and other writers to illustrate how information should be prioritised and structured in prose (e.g., a news report).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Inverted pyramid (journalism)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Inverted pyramid.jpg: The Air Force Departmental Publishing Office (AFDPO) / derivative work: Makeemlighter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.