Who invented the 5 W's (who,what,why,when,where)?

Answer 1

The 5th Estate--Journalism. Those are the questions journalists are supposed to ask and I would add HOW!

Answer 2

The original inventor was Walter W. Wentworth-Worley-Whipple (1897 - 1989) . He was a noted columnist AND a notorious boozer .

Whenever he regained conciousness after partaking of the demon rum , he`d always look around and ask "who , what , why , when , where ?"

It`s believed he invented the phrase when at 29 years of age , he realized his initials were W . W . W . W . W ....................

Sadly , Walter partook a little too much one evening and passed out in the middle of the main street in his home town of Rumsdorf , Holland . He was run over by a truck delivering whiskey to the local pub .

The residents of Rumsdorf have always insisted poor Walter would have wanted to go that way .

Answer 3

In journalism, the Five Ws, also known as the Five Ws (and one H) or simply the Six Ws, is a concept in news style, research, and in police investigations that most people consider to be fundamental. It is a formula for getting the "full" story on something. The maxim of the Five Ws (and one H) is that in order for a report to be considered complete it must answer a checklist of six questions, each of which comprises an interrogative word:

who?
what?
where?
when?
why?
how? (sometimes spelt Whow?)


The "Five Ws" (and one H) were memorialized by Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories" (1902), in which a poem accompanying the tale of "The Elephant's Child" opens with the lines

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Answer 4

Maybe the Inventor of the internet "Al Gore" No just kidding I have no idea.

Answer 5

I believe that was Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Back Cotter.

Answer 6

I think it was the Owls.....WWWWWWWWWhhhooooooo....