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News Values
100
Who What When Where Why How
What are the 5Ws and H?
100
A line identifying the author.
What is byline?
100
The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
What is a story
100
The major story displayed at the top of Page One.
What is the lead story?
100
A story about a zoning battle with the county council.
What is conflict?
200
Advertisement
What is an ad?
200
The first paragraph or first several paragraphs of a newspaper story.
What is the lead or lede?
200
The measurement of opinion by questioning members of some small group chosen at random so as to be representative of the entire group.
What is a poll?
200
The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
What is a cutline?
200
A story profiling a day in the life of a janitor at Wando.
What is human interest?
300
Illustrations and type extended beyond regular page margins to outside edges of the page.
What is bleed?
300
The completed page drawing, or page dummy.
What is layout?
300
The time by which a reporter or editor must have a completed scheduled work.
What is a deadline?
300
A type of follow that reports on a development related to an earlier story.
What is an update?
300
A story about pet skunks.
What is novelty?
400
Photographer’s byline appearing with the photograph.
What is photo credit?
400
The use of a single color in addition to black on a printed page.
What is spot color?
400
A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
What is a sidebar?
400
A visual representation of data.
What is an info graphic?
400
Today’s latest story about election primaries.
What is timeliness?
500
Size, shape and general characteristics of a publication.
What is format?
500
A paragraph that summarizes the key elements or element of a story.
What is nut graph?
500
A short summary headline of 2-5 words.
What is a text head?
500
The opening paragraph of a story
What is a lead?
500
A story about a shooting on Coleman Blvd.
What is proximity?
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