Vocabulary
A person you interview and quote for a story.
What is a source?
The publication where your written stories are published.
What is NSMToday?
Alexander Cartwright is the president of UCF.
What is fact?
This is the minimum required word count for a story.
What is 250 words?
This 2019 film about Fox News stars Margot Robbie and Nicole Kidman.
What is Bombshell?
The introductory sentence of a story.
What is a lede?
The platform you use to pitch a story for NSMToday.
What is Slack?
ABC is a better news station than CBS.
What is opinion?
You need at least five of these types of clips.
What are hard news stories?
This film about a Boston Globe investigation into the Catholic Church won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016.
What is Spotlight?
A paragraph that gives the context of the story.
What is a nut graf?
This beat would cover campus police and other law enforcement agencies such as victim services.
What is public safety?
Professor Adelson should teach more classes.
What is opinion?
The semester you need to submit your portfolio.
What is the semester before you intend to graduate?
Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2018 for her portrayal of Katharine Graham in this film.
What is The Post?
A particular area or topic that a reporter covers.
What is a beat?
The software you use to submit your stories and have them edited.
What is BloxCMS?
Scott Pelley is the host of 60 Minutes.
What is fact?
You need at least two of these quoted in your story for it to count in your portfolio.
What are sources?
This 2006 film starring Anne Hathaway shows the cutthroat side of the fashion magazine industry.
What is The Devil Wears Prada?
The model used to describe how a news story is structured.
What is inverted pyramid?
This person may be the middleman between an organization and a reporter.
What is a Public Information Officer (PIO)?
You need to transcribe all of your interviews for accuracy.
What is opinion?
You need at least ten of these types of clips.
What are feature stories?
This 1976 film follows the investigative reporting story that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation.
What is All the President’s Men?