Newsworthiness & News Values
IIF stands for these three words that help you determine if a topic is newsworthy.
What is interesting, informative, and factual?
Establishing relationships, building trust, taking note of body language, and making sources more comfortable in their own environment are all reasons you should do this in person.
What is interview?
This acronym describes the format that your news story should follow.
What is LQTQ?
Running spell check, making sure names are spelled correctly, double checking dates and facts, and running a word count are all of the basic steps when you start doing this.
What is revising your story?
This type of headline features a short, catchy main headline and a secondary headline that describes the main idea of the story.
What is a hammer headline?
Stories about sports or fashion would be considered this type of news.
What is soft news?
Reporters use observation, interviewing, and this to gather information.
What is research?
These questions answer all of the important information in a news story and should always be included in your lead and additional information.
What is who, what, when, where, why, and how?
All writing is this term. No one ever writes a perfect story on their first try.
What is rewriting?
Where did Mr. Wells get his Master's degree from?
Stories about weather, disaster, or crime would fall under this news category.
What is hard news?
This isn't math class, but this term for the specific approach or focus you take to your topic sounds like it should be.
What is a story angle?
Your story should always end with this, which summarizes the story and captures the overall vibe.
What is a kicker quote?
These -ly words aren't totally bad, but you can replace them with stronger verbs.
What is an adverb?
In a story pitch, this person needs to generate prospective ideas, be original, identify the element of news, do the work, outline their pitch, and submit their ideas early.
Who is a reporter?
The news values or elements of news are also known as this regulation.
What is the rule of eight?
An open-ended question requires the source to go in depth with their answers and not just give you this.
What is a one or two word response?
Some of you might think Mr. Wells is your enemy when he puts in missing grades for your work. In reality, this term is your worst enemy, because you should say what you need to in as few words as possible.
What is wordiness?
Changing something from saying "was walking" to "walked" is using this type of voice.
What is active voice?
This 4-time Super Bowl Champion team is Mr. Wells' favorite. Jordan Love is going to take us to a fifth!
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
These eight news values help us determine what to cover and what our audience cares about.
What is timeliness, proximity, impact, celebrity, conflict, novelty, human interest, and currency?
Most people know about closed-ended, open-ended, and two-part questions. Only pros know these six other types of questions that will get you great information in an interview.
What is hypothetical, statistical, from outer space, devil's advocate, personal experience, and request?
These six alliterative terms help make your news writing the best it can be.
What is correct, complete, consistent, concise, clear, and coherent?
We're not talking about the style magazine, but instead this acronym helps you make sure you've revised everything you need to in your story.
What is GQ STUDS?
This artist was Mr. Wells' most listened to artist on his Spotify Wrapped.
Who is Zach Bryan?