Information about events, people, or issues that the public wants or needs to know.
What is news?
100
Interview "questions" that allow the source to form a detailed response
What are open-ended questions?
100
A coverage story that "follows up" on a previously reported story
What is a follow-up story?
100
The connection of a feature story to a related news item
What is a newspeg?
200
A particular area of news
What is a beat?
200
The approach you take to a story
What is an angle?
200
Interview "questions" intended to get a source to further explain or expand upon a previous answer
What are follow-up questions?
200
In-depth reporting that seeks to uncover and expose something hidden
What is investigative reporting?
200
A short "letter" from a reader expressing an opinion
What is a letter to the editor?
300
The person who manages the day-to-day operations of a newspaper
What is a managing editor?
300
Someone or something that connects a story's topic to the "local" readers
What is a local angle?
300
A term used to explain a particular type of agreement between a source and a reporter in which the reporter will "not" print the information that the source provides.
What is off the record?
300
A type of "reporting" that covers good and bad guys in the marketplace
What is consumer reporting?
300
A bylined opinon article focusing on the relative worth of a product or performance
What is a review?
400
All the words that will be set in print.
What is a copy?
400
The characteristics of a story that make it appeal to readers; Timeliness, Human Interest, Proximity, Prominence, Consequence, and Conflict.
What are the new determinants? Or What are the elements of news?
400
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is a face-to-face interview?
400
A significant segment of a group chosen at "random" for a survey
What is a random sample?
400
A feature of a particular type that appears, or "runs", in each issue
What is a running feature?
500
The person who mediates discussions between the school administration and the newspaper staff; Mr. Kelly
What is an advisor?
500
The tendency to publish information that causes an intense but brief interest or emotional reaction
What is sensationalism?
500
who, what, when, where, why, and how
What are the 5 W's and H?
500
In school papers, a series of very short news reports in which each report is separated by an ellipsis