Journalism 101
The practice of gathering, recording, verifying, and reporting on information of public importance.
What is Journalism?
What is who, what, where, when, why and how?
The words printed in large type across the top of a news article to catch the reader's attention.
What is a headline?
The art and skill of combining text and pictures in print media, digital media, magazines, and books.
What is graphic design?
What are cats?
The person in charge of the newspaper. The person who approves news stories
What is an editor?
Story structure used to dictate how news articles are written with the most important info at the top and information of descending importance after.
What is an Inverted Pyramid?
The words at the beginning of an article that tell when and where a story was written.
What is a dateline?
The line that the text orients toward (left, center, right)
What is alignment?
A group of flamingoes.
What is a flamboyance?
The person being interviewed.
What is an interviewee?
News articles that are intentionally and verifiably false.
What is "fake news?"
The name of the reporter who writes the news story, placed at the beginning of an article.
What is a byline?
A set of type of one particular face and size.
What is a font?
The only state with a one syllable name.
What is Maine?
The topic a reporter has been assigned to report on over time.
What is a beat?
When journalists or news organizations allow their own opinions to affect the news that they report and the way that they report it.
What is bias? OR What is media bias?
Two facing pages in a publication, one left-hand and one right-hand page, facing each other.
What is a spread?
Preliminary versions of publications meant for review by authors, editors, and proofreaders.
What is a "proof"
Animal that Australian soldiers fought in 1932.
What are emus?
Three aspects of news ___________ are 1. Clarity (how easily the article can be understood) 2. Accuracy (how well documented the information is) 3. Trustworthiness (how believable the information is)
What is news credibility?
A short communication, usually an email, suggesting a news story to a journalist or editor at a news organization.
What is a news pitch?
Any text within a publication or composition.
What is copy?
The empty space around objects or text that creates a pleasing visual experience.
What is white space?
Known as the friendly neighborhood hero.
Who is Spiderman?
Themes that news organizations focus on to decide if a story is "newsworthy" include:
Timeliness, Impact, Prominence, Proximity, Conflict, and Human Interest
What are the six news values?
Subject+Verb+Object=
What is a headline?
A news article in which people give their opinion on an important issue.
What is an editorial?
The spacing between letters
What is kerning?
The perfect number of ketchup packets for a large order of fries.
What is twelve?