It's called the "Inverted Pyramid" and anyone who has taken a journalism class worth anything learned it. It's there so that editors can cut down the story eas

It's called the "Inverted Pyramid" and anyone who has taken a journalism class worth anything learned it. It's there so that editors can cut down the story easily if it doesn't fit on the page. Page design is really hard if you can't change the size of some of the stories.