The Basics
Photojournalism
Profiles
Current Events
Soft News
100

This is the first rule in Journalism

Don't Bury The Lead

100

The main focal point of a photo.

The subject

100

She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on bus in 1955 BEFORE Rose Parks

Claudette Colvin

100

This is a tax imposed on foreign goods

Tariff

100

This is writing a portrait of a person with words instead of paint

Profile

200

Who What When Where Why and How

5 Ws and H

200

Lines in an image that guide the eye towards the subject

Leading Lines

200

His op/ed called for the United States to withdraw from the Viet Nam War. He was also known as the "Most Trusted Man in America"

Walter Cronkite

200

The new Pope graduated from this University

Villa Nova

200

To write one of these, you should save your overall recommendations until the end, in order to keep the reader engaged throughout the entire article

Review

300

This format designates that's a news article should be written with the most important information up top and lesser necessary details at the bottom

The Inverted/Upside Down Pyramid

300

This is a guideline for composing a more interesting image, which places the subject on specific areas of an image

Rule of Thirds

300

These two men reported on the Watergate Scandal, a their story resulted in then President Richard Nixon resigning from office

Bob Woodward and Carl Burnstein 

300

This is the name given a type of lighter news that typically is aired during the D Block of a news broadcast, as it is not that important, but will send the viewers off happy

Fluff

400

This lets the reader know who wrote the story

Byline

400

This is an element of Photojournalism that captures a response in the image

Reaction

400

This person was responsible for calling to an end to McCarthyism

Edward R. Murrow

400

Mexico has stating that they intend to sue Google over this naming issue

Gulf of America

400

Someone who tells a story with photography

Photojournalist
500

Another name for the caption under a photo, which tells you information about the image, such as who took it and where is it from

Cutline

500

This effect states that the image a viewer sees effects how they perceive the next image

The Kuleshov Effect

500

This person wrote "The Jungle" and a novel exposing the horrors of the American Meat Industry at the time

Upton Sinclair

500

This Newark Mayor was arrested for protesting

Ras Baraka

500

Op-Ed is an abbreviation for this term

Opinion/Editorial 

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