Conducting an interview these two ways are rarely acceptable.
What is email or text?
100
If someone disagrees with a new law or a proposed development, he or she is likely to get covered.
What is conflict?
100
Changing the words inside a direct quotation is called this.
What is misquoting?
100
Valerie Schremp Hahn, a reporter with this newspaper, spoke to the class about her job.
What is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch?
100
Don't ever include this in a news story.
What is opinion?
200
Always start off an interview by asking easy questions, which are also known as this.
What are softball questions?
200
Most news organizations cover a specific geographic range.
What is local?
200
You can tell something is a direct quote because of these two things.
What is it's in quotation marks and it's attributed to a source?
200
She covered this major news event, which happened over several months, on a nightly basis.
What are the Ferguson protests?
200
"The dog bit Jane," is an example of this voice, which should be used in news writing.
What is active voice?
300
When possible, interview people on their home turf because you want them to be this.
What is comfortable?
300
The Congressman who hides money in his freezer, the hedge fund manager who rips off his clients, and the music mogul who murders his companion are almost guaranteed to be deemed newsworthy.
What is scandal?
300
The best quotes get to this.
What is the emotion or human side of the story?
300
Prosecutor Tim Lohmar conducted one of these in the class.
What is a mock press conference?
300
The ending of a story should never get preachy, so avoid this.
What is the sermonette?
400
Make sure to get this before you end the interview.
What is the interviewee's contact information?
400
Stories about a guy who fights city hall or a small-town basketball team that beats a big-city powerhouse will get covered.
What is David vs. Goliath?
400
When using partial or indirect quotes, be careful you don't take a person's words out of this.
What is context?
400
Lohmar is prosecutor of this county.
What is St. Charles County?
400
If you use opinion in a story make sure to do this.
What is attribute it?
500
This is a good final question for an interview.
What is "Do you have anything else you'd like to add?"
500
If your study discovers that fried foods have previously undiscovered health benefits, you can bet the media will cover it.
What is surprising?
500
Every time you use a quote, start a new one of these.
What is a paragraph?
500
This former Lindenwood journalism professor now the manager of Multimedia Video Communications for the St. Louis Cardinals.
What is Jill Falk?
500
If the body of the story doesn't support the lead, you should do this.