1. Timeliness- how recent something happened
2. Proximity- How close that subject is to where you are in the world.
3. Human Interest-Something that appeals to our human nature.
4. Prominence- How important your subject is.
5. Conflict- We like to read about 2 things clashing. A conflict.
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6. Interviews- Something a reporter conducts with a source. A conversation between reporter and source.
7. Research- What reporters should do after they decide what their topic is. They should do research on topic. Find out additional info.
8. Quotations- The words from your sources.
9. Yes-no question- A question that can be answered with a yes or a no.
10. follow-up question-A question you ask to get your source to elaborate further, or give you more information.
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11. Objective writing- A sentence that has little or no opinion in it at all.
3 Questions on Objective writing. Which sentence is the most objective?
12. Transition paragraph- A paragraph that links quotations and paragraphs together.
13. Hard news story-A timely "breaking news" story.
14. Soft news story-Written in news style, but a little older and well known.
15. Inverted Pyramid-A writing style for hard news. Most important stuff at the top and least important stuff at the bottom.
16. Third-person point of view-The way you should be writing in everything but reviews and commentary. 1st person, I. 2nd person, we, us. 3rd person, he she they.
17. 5 Ws and H lead- We use the 5 W and one H style for a lead in a hard news story.
18. editing-
- prepare (written material) for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it.
"Volume I was edited by J. Johnson"
synonyms: correct, check, copyedit, improve, emend, polish; More
- 2.be editor of (a newspaper or magazine).
synonyms: be the editor of, direct, run, manage, head, lead, supervise, oversee, preside over;
informalbe the boss of"he edited the school newspaper"
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19. attribution- When you give credit to your source for what they said.
20. paraphrase- Indirect quote, a summary of what your sources said, with you rewriting it in a different way.
21. fragmentary quotation-Not real
22. direct quotation-An exact word for word account of what the source said.
23. partial quotation- Direct Quotation / Partial Direct Quotations (text removed) / Partial Direct Quotations (text introduced or concluded) / Block Quotation / Paraphrasing. DirectQuotation. Definition: The use of the exact words of the writer, often in complete sentences, surrounded by quotation marks.
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24. Uses of quotations- quotes are supposed to convey feelings and emotion, pull reader into the story.
25. When to use quotations- Don't quote facts, always opinions, must convey feelings and emotions and draw in reader.
26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired-Don't need to attribute general knowledge to anybody.
27. Editorial- An article that states the newspapers' opinion on a topic. Generally, there's an editorial board, that decides what the editorial should be.
28. editorial page- A page or pages in a newspaper that has the editorial, columns, opinion pieces, political cartoons, reviews, staff box.
29. columns- An article written by an individual person that expresses their opinion on a topic.
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30. editorial that criticizes- an editorial that expresses that something is wrong.
31. editorial that explains- Explaining something going on in a community
32. editorial that persuades-Trying to get people to change their minds, offering specific solutions to problems
33. letter to the editor- Something written by somebody in the community to the newspaper.
33. letter to the editor- Something written by somebody in the community to the newspaper.
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