Journalism Essentials
A reporter's specialized area of coverage based on geography or topic.
What is a news beat?
Denotes a particularly notable or important piece of news
Headline
What is the difference between their, there, and they're?
Their is possessive, there refers to somewhere, and they're combined they are.
If you are going to do your article on time you do not want to miss this.
What is deadline?
Journalism is the profession of writing for________.
What are newspapers and magazines, broadcast news (TV and radio), digital news (online publications)?
What are the 5 w's and h of Journalism?
Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
The most important sentence that is written to generate interest.
What is a lede/lead?
Is this a good headline and why?
To cool for school
No, because you need to change the "to" to too and capitalize "cool" and "school"
Something one should do prior to an interview.
What is conducting research and writing a list of questions?
These are ways a journalist can connect with an audience through an article? Name two.
Demographic applicability, recent events, a relevant person, involving conflict and sparking curiosity.
These are the 3 types of journalism.
What are Broadcast, Digital and Print?
What is the paragraph called that tells the reader why they should care about the article?
Nutgraf
This word refers to general things and are usually lowercased, while this word refers to specific things and are usually uppercased.
What is the difference between common and proper nouns?
This writing structure puts the most important information at the beginning of the article and the least important information at the end.
What is the Inverted Pyramid?
The process for writing an article.
What is
Brainstorm: Select a topic to write about.
Identify your target audience.
Research facts that reinforce your story.
Come up with an outline of your article.
Write a rough draft and pare down your outline.
Specify your subject matter.
Read aloud until your draft is error-free?
Reporting all relevant sides of an issue and presenting them equally.
What is fairness and balance in journalism?
A form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest.
What is investigative journalism?
What punctuation goes where?
When I was at the beach on Tuesday I saw a red fish
A comma after Tuesday and a period after fish
Cross-checking information with another source.
What is a way to confirm reliability and accuracy of information?
Copying someone else's writing without credit or permission.
What is plagiarism?
Examples of facts to include in your article.
What are statistics, quotes, and sensory information?
This term has two meanings in journalism.
The first means a line of newspaper type set above a headline.
The second means a revelation that concludes an article.
What is a kicker?
This sentence is missing what where?
“I feel like it was cheaper for me to buy a ticket to go to Australia to go to a DISSH brick-and-mortar and pick up my clothes than order it online” one woman said on TikTok of the $1,700 tariff bill she was saddled with from DHL on an order from an Australian fashion brand.
What is a comma after online within the closing quotation mark?
This type of journalism emphasizes the importance of public debate.
What are all types of journalism?
These are five background skills that are vital for journalists to develop.
What are grammar, reading, becoming a wordsmith, writing to communicate not impress and choosing to be a lifelong learner and writer?