Chapter 9A
Chapter 9B
Chapter 9C
Chapter 10A
Chapter 10B
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TRT
What is Total Running Time
100
A story, written by a reporter or anchor, that does not have video to accompany the story.
What is a reader?
100
Information people want to know, should know or need to know.
What is news?
100
The approach or point of view to tell a story.
What is an angle?
100
The tense that should be used as much as possible in newswriting.
What is present tense?
200
A line of communication between the anchors and the producer in the control room.
What is an IFB
200
Television news programming that is expected to provide a fair and unbiased presentation of facts.
What is mainstream media?
200
A story where the audience sees B-roll and the anchor followed by a comment from a principal player.
What is a VO-SOT?
200
The first line of a story that immediately presents the most important information.
What is a hard lead?
200
Everything spoken by the reporter in a package.
What is a reporter track?
300
The on-air conversation or small talk between anchors or anchors and reporters.
What is patter?
300
A story that is 1 1/2 - 2 minutes in length, contains its own intro and outro, and is edited.
What is a package?
300
A specific area regularly covered by a reporter.
What is a beat?
300
The conclusion of a story.
What is a close?
300
Interviewee's comments recorded on the footage that are phrased better than the reporter.
What is "Big A" comments?
400
Footage in a package where a reporter speaks directly to the viewers from the location of the story.
What is a stand-up.
400
The organization of stories and sequence of a newscast in written form.
What is rundown?
400
Footage of a principal player connected to the story.
What is a SOT or sound bite?
400
Sentence construction that should be used in newswriting.
What is simple subject-verb-object?
400
Crediting the source of information used in a story.
What is attribution?
500
The 4 news elements of soft news story.
What is Unusualness, Emotion, Achievement, and Contrast?
500
A story that is appropriate to be broadcast at any time.
What is an evergreen?
500
The 5 news elements for a hard news story.
What is Proximity, Timeliness, Prominence, Consequences and Conflict.
500
Informal language that is simple and direct so the meaning is understood the first time it is heard.
What is "writing for the ear"?
500
The process of writing a news story.
What is Find the story, Identify the Angle/Research, Log Video, Write the Script, and Edit the Story?
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