Parts of a news story
News Writing
Photography
Newsworthiness
Miscellaneous
100
This is the author's name in a news story.
What is a byline?
100
We ask these questions when writing an effective story.
What is the "who, what, when, where, why and how" of a news story.
100
All photographs in photojournalism must tell this.
What is a story?
100
A story about the Queen of England would be a good example of a story featuring this news value.
What is prominence/weight?
100
A story that includes multiple perspectives has this.
What is balance?
200
This is the text indicating the nature of the article below it.
What is a headline?
200
These types of news stories cover information about your country. It affects the entire country.
What is national news?
200
Photographs in photojournalism typically avoid this.
What is posing/staging a photograph?
200
This is when two or more entities oppose each other. It doesn't always have to be people.
What is conflict?
200
This is beyond dispute. It cannot be challenged. The opposite of this is an opinion.
What is a fact?
300
In a news story, these are usually short, concise and feature tight language, avoiding wordiness.
What is a news paragraph?
300
This is anything that provides information for a news story.
What is a source?
300
This refers to where everything is located at in a photo.
What is composition?
300
Weather, health information and safety guidelines are examples of stories that have this.
What is usefulness?
300
"President Trump was a bad president" would be an example of a statement which features this.
What is an opinion?
400
the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story.
What is a lede?
400
This type of press focuses on sensational stories, celebrity coverage, scandals, shorter stories and tends use to bombastic / sensational language rhetoric.
What is tabloid press?
400
This helps set the tone of your photograph.
What is lighting?
400
A story about a school attack would be a story that has a lot of this for another student.
What is proximity?
400
The backbone of journalism is this.
What is interviewing?
500
This is the caption of a photograph in a news story.
What is a cutline?
500
This press type focus on objective journalism, news analysis, longer stories with critical perspectives, straightforward and factual reporting and includes complex language.
What is Quality Press?
500
This is a composition guideline that places your subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two thirds more open
Rule of thirds
500
A story that was released this morning has more of this than a story written more than 2 weeks ago.
What is timeliness?
500
These individuals will help you determine what news stories to write, how to write to them and what is interesting for your news intuition.
What is the target auidence?
600
This part of a news story often includes the least important information and even can be optional.
What is a conclusion?
600
When writing news stories using the inverted pyramid we start with this.
What is the outcome of a story?
600
This is a balance of three factors: ISO, shutter & Aperture.
What is exposure?
600
A story that includes something out of the ordinary or has an interesting spin to it features a lot of this.
What is novelty?
600
When interviewing we should ask these type of questions after we get a response to gain more insight into the individual and/or their experience in relation to the news story we are reporting.
What are follow up questions?
700
This represents a writing style with starts with the outcome, followed by the most important informant, less important information and least important information. It serves as a guideline to write news stories.
What is the inverted pyramid?
700
These news values give news writers parameters to work with in a news story. Theoretically, we should aim to achieve all 8 in a news story.
What are: Impact, Weight, Timeliness, Proximity , Prominence, Conflict, Novelty & Usefulness?
700
When writing these, we should focus on the following when thinking about their relationship with the accompanying photograph:
Who, what when where and why of what is happening
Names of people shown spelled correctly
What is going on
The date including the day of the week and year
Where it is happening including the city and state
Why the event pictured is going on and why it is important to the story
What is a cutline?
700
Whereas impact involves how many people are affected by a story and how serious the story is, this involves the depth of shock and/or pain and out of character events.
What is weight?
700
A lede should be no longer than this amount of words.
What are 50 words?