Functions of a journalist
Ethics of Journalism
News Judgement
Interviewing
Good Writing
100
an accurate record of local, national, and world news
What is the Record-Keeping function?
100
Made up sources for many of his stories.
Who is Stephen Glass?
100
Technique used by journalists to generate story ideas.
What is Brainstorming?
100
Questions that will illicit more than a yes or no response.
What are open-ended questions?
100
A method for organizing a news story in which the most important information is presented near the top of the article.
What is the inverted pyramid?
200
a diversion for consumers
What is the Entertainment Function?
200
Printed false defamation of character.
What is libel?
200
Method used to evaluate whether or not an idea is newsworthy.
What is the Who Cares Method?
200
All purpose questions usable in any situation.
What are stock questions?
200
The offense presented by the word "mailman".
What is sexist language?
300
Determining what we talk about as a nation and as individuals.
What is the Agenda-Setting Function?
300
To ensure this, journalists must double-check to verify information.
What is accuracy?
300
News element related to the newness of the facts.
What is timeliness?
300
A story technique in which the reporter's exact questions are reproduced.
What is the "Q and A"?
300
Writing style that is clear, simple, and concise.
What is succint?
400
Information about products, goods, and services.
What is the Economic Function?
400
The state of mind that journalists acquire to make them fair, neutral observers of events.
What is objectivity?
400
New element related to the nearness of a given event to the place of publication.
What is proximity?
400
Information provided that cannot be used in a story.
What is off the record?
400
An overworked, overused, trite expression.
What is a cliche?
500
Keeping watch over society's horizons
What is the Sentry Function?
500
Supreme Court case of 1980's that limited decisions made by student editors of scholastic newspapers.
What is the Hazelwood Decision?
500
News element that evokes emotion.
What is human-interest?
500
Famous Washington Post reporters who uncovered the scandal known as Watergate.
Who are Woodward and Bernstein?
500
The verb used to indicate the source of a quote.
What is the attribution verb?
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