The Basics
The reporting and publishing of the news.
What is journalism?
A social media platform often used by President Trump that also acts as a great tool for surfacing stories.
What is Twitter?
Taking someone else’s words or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
What is plagiarism?
An individual.
What is the focus of a profile or obituary?
The format that reads as follow: LEAD - NUT GRAPH - LEAD QUOTE - FACTS/QUOTES - ENDING
What is inverted pyramid?
The beginning of the story which serves to summarize the story and/or grab the reader's attention is this.
What is the lead or lede?
Information that may not be used at all; cannot be attributed to source.
What is off-the-record?
Publishing a false statement that damages someone’s reputation.
What is libel?
Focus, theme, and background.
What are the basic elements of a profile?
The sentence or paragraph that states the focus/main point of the story; tells the reader in a nutshell what the story is about and why it is newsworthy.
What is a nut graph?
News that entertains or informs on a basis of human interest or novelty.
What is soft news?
Proximity, timeliness, human interest, consequence, prominence, etc.
What are reasons something is newsworthy?
Ensures the free exchange of information that is accurate, fair and thorough; acts with integrity.
What is ethical journalism?
A dialogue between a journalist and one or more sources to gather story information.
What is an interview?
The ending of a piece of journalistic writing.
What is the kicker?
Information tied to a reliable source.
What is attribution?
Created in 1966 to make records available to public;
Applies to federal documents.
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
Intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, publicity that puts a person in a false light and misappropriation of a person’s name or image without permission.
What are the four grounds for invasion of privacy lawsuits?
Taking detailed notes and recording the interview on tape or digitally.
What are methods of good interviewing?
A structure that starts with a creative lead, focusing on the specific and then moving to the general.
What is the Wall Street Journal formula/the Kabob formula?
Presenting news or information for print, broadcast, and digital all in one fell swoop.
What is media convergence?
Focus, Lead & nut graph, History, Scope, Reasons, Impacts, Moves and countermoves, and Future.
What are the elements of a feature?
Because false light invasion of privacy is so similar to libel, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that false light plaintiffs must prove this.
What is actual malice?
The act of electronically recording an interview with a source without the source’s knowledge is this.
What is wrong?
Conceive; Collect; Construct; Correct.
What are the stages of the writing process?