1. General Terms
100: The activity of collecting, verifying, and sharing news and information.
What is journalism?
100: The title of a news article.
What is a headline?
100: A conversation where a reporter asks questions.
What is an interview?
100: New, interesting, and important information about recent events.
What is news?
100: Being trustworthy and believable as a reporter.
What is credibility?
200: The person who gathers facts and writes news stories.
Who is a reporter/journalist?
200: The opening that answers the 5W+H.
What is a lead/lede?
200: Exact words someone says, in quotation marks.
What is a quote?
200: A story unusual or relevant enough to report.
What is newsworthy?
200: Reporting facts correctly without errors.
What is accuracy?
300: A person, document, or place that provides information for a story.
What is a source?
300: A style of writing where the most important info comes first.
What is the inverted pyramid?
300: Identifying who gave the information.
What is attribution?
300: Events close to the audience are more relevant because of this.
What is proximity?
300: Covering all sides of a story without bias.
What is fairness?
400: The person who reviews and approves articles before they are published.
Who is an editor?
400: The line that shows who wrote the article.
What is a byline?
400: A personal belief that cannot be proven true.
What is an opinion?
400: Disagreements or problems that create interest.
What is conflict?
400: Copying someone else’s work without credit.
What is plagiarism?
500: Reporting without personal bias; presenting facts fairly.
What is objectivity?
500: The location and date at the start of an article.
What is a dateline?
500: The specific focus or perspective of a story.
What is an angle?
500: Stories about people, emotions, or experiences.
What is human interest?
500: A source who does not want to be named.
What is an anonymous source?