Publications have different styles.  Some even provide style or editorial guidelines.  Your style has to match the publication you are targeting and for a newspaper the section.

 
Topics in this section

• Active Voice and Passive Voice
• Brevity
• Bullet points or Dot lists
• Copy-typing
• Famous column, wise advice
• First person
• Ghost writer
• Headline writing
• Hemingway
• Humor writing
• Opinions, columns
• PR style writing
• Review, what is it
• Round-up
• Show don’t tell
• Style Guides – Editorial Guidelines
• Top tens
• Two people feature