Being a teacher for online news-writing courses, this essay explores how students could write online news with a strong news sense, and could differentiate themselves from current citizen journalists with skills they would acquire from doing so. It is proposed that students should acquire the skill of applying the traditional inverted pyramid format to online news and should understand how to write with a sense of interactivity and multi-media content. Through literature reviews and personal teaching experiences, this essay discusses how a teacher can successfully guide students who have learned traditional news-writing to write good online news in the classroom. To write online news, a student needs to keep the audience in mind. It is important to know that the audience does not read but scans the online news. Therefore, to draw the audience's active attention, an online journalist should learn to think visually. Furthermore, he or she needs to focus on non-linear chunks, instead of traditional linear paragraphs. This is the most critical difference between print and online journalism. It is also essential to reinforce the five Is of hypertext, i.e. Interaction, Involvement, Immediacy, Integration and In depth. Without these characteristics, the hypertext will lose its uniqueness. There are five steps suggested for a student with traditional news-writing background to learn to deliver online news. First, a student is encouraged to write a news report in the traditional inverted pyramid format. Then he or she is asked to revise traditional introductions (導語) to summaries (摘要). The third step is to review the paragraphs and re-construct them to online favorable chunks. The fourth step is to connect the different chunks with guiding links (導引列). The last step is to add chunks of the sources and/or related links. In conclusion, the biggest challenge for a student who has learned traditional news-writing skills to write online news is to integrate the text, pictures and videos appropriately. These elements should complement each other and form an equal partnership, which is different from the text-centered tradition. The other challenge is to visualize the text. In other words, to write good on-line news, a student is expected to have the ability to use pictures, graphics and/or videos to present specific meanings. This visualization ability is something most students lack. To enhance a student's visual literacy, one of the best solutions is to teach him or her the composition theory of photography (攝影學 的構圖理論). Good online news should fully explore digital technologies and maintain a strong news sense in the content. Therefore, it is crucial for a student to learn a complementary way of viewing text and different visual elements, based on the traditional inverted pyramid format.