Leads and Jargon
Headlines
AP Style
News and Structure
Wanna Be Journalist
100

Reporting that uses extensive research and interviews to provide a detailed account of a significant story.

What is in-depth reporting

100

A brief description of the contents of a news story printed in larger type, usually above the story.

What is a headline.

100

You capitalize someone's title (President, Vice President, etc.) when it comes _____ their name in a sentence.

What is Before

100

Copy used under or with a photograph. It identifies what or who is in the picture and where it is taken. (Also called cutline)

What is caption?

100

It is the oldest news agency in the world

 Agence France-Presse (AFP)

200

A fact or bit of information that will stick in the audience's minds and make them remember the story.

What is hook/nugget

200

We are called the 5 w's and h of news writing? But I am usually the most crucial of them all.

What is WHAT

200

After introducing a person in a news story, you use this part of their name for the rest of the story.

What is last 

200

Stories that are considered to be not immediately important or significant to a wide audience such s personality feature stories or "news you can use" columns.

 What is soft news?

200

Although it's not the oldest news agency in the world, it's the largest, with reporters in almost every country in the world, and with a 24-hour news service

Associated Press (AP)

300

Overused, overworked, old, and trite expression (for example busy bees, blushing bride, dull thud)

What is cliche'?

300

It's the title of every news article a journalist writes.

What is Headline

300

This kind of punctuation mark is not used for lists of items in AP style.

What is the Oxford comma?

300

A person assigned to check the same news source for each issue of the paper (for example, art, music, theater, police administration).

What is beat reporter?

300

Writing that expresses the writer's opinion and view point. In a newspaper, this belongs on the editorial page.

What is subjective writing

400

Person or body that owns, runs, or controls a publication, setting broad guidelines and general policies.

What is publisher?

400

The name of the person writing the article.

What is a Byline

400

Name one of the states AP style does not abbreviate in datelines aside from Texas. (Multiple possible answers)

What is Idaho? 

What is Hawaii?

What is Alaska?

What is Iowa?

What is Maine?

What is Ohio?

400

A story that focuses more on entertaining than on simply informing the audience. These may be written on virtually any topic.

What is a feature story?

400

Ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events.

What is objectivity?

500

Reporting all relevant sides of an issue and presenting them equally.

What is fairness and balance in journalism?

500

In most cases, you spell out these numbers.

In most cases, you spell out these numbers.

500

You always use numbers, not words for this/these. (Multiple possible answers)

What is age?

What is temperature?

What is percentage?

What is room number?

What is weight? 

What is money? 

500

One in which newsworthy events occur over several days or weeks.

What is a developing/current story?

500

To put a speaker's words into the reporter's own words without changing the meaning or inserting opinion. Used to clarify lengthy, fuzzy or complicated thoughts. They do not have to be used in quotation marks.

What is paraphrase?

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