Examine your topic. If you are writing this article for school, you might have more flexibility than if you are writing for a professional newspaper, as editors will assign you topics on which you might have little knowledge. Do preliminary research to make sure you understand what you will write about. Your article might be based on a journal article released that day or week about a breakthrough in cancer treatment or new findings on the effects of red wine on your health. News articles should answer these things: who, what, where, when and why.
Contact your sources. Call, email or visit doctors or professionals in the scientific field you are researching. Each news article should have at least three sources to provide varying views on the subject about which you are writing.
Compile and organize your notes. Type your notes if you wrote them freehand, so you can access them more easily as you write your story. Organize different aspects of your topic by most important to least important.
Create another file for quotes. Scientific articles are most credible when the writer cites sources verbatim. Once you type your notes, find the best quotes from your sources and make sure you provide full quotes and attribute the proper citation to the correct person. Move these quotes to your new file to keep them easily accessible when you write your article.
Write your article in an inverted pyramid; that is, put the least important information toward the bottom. This is to ensure that readers get the gist of the story immediately, and it is also helpful for copy editors and designers in case they need to trim your story to make the text fit on the news page. Quote your sources throughout, including information you pulled from any journal or other information source. When you are done writing, submit it to your teacher or editor.