The use of any part of another's writing and passing it off as your own.
What is plagiarism?
100
Reading and understanding what you write.
What is literate?
100
News that is happening now, news of interest to readers right now.
What is timeliness?
100
Stories that are considered to be not immediately important or significant to a wide audience such as personality feature stories or "news you can use" columns.
What is soft news?
100
Copy used under or with a photograph. It identifies what or who is in the picture and where it is taken. (Also called cutline)
What is caption?
200
Writing that expresses the writer's opinion and view point. In a newspaper, this belongs on the editorial page.
What is subjective writing?
200
A style of organizing your thoughts before writing.
What is inverted pyramid?
200
News that will affect a large number of readers.
What is impact?
200
A story or article that focuses more on entertaining than on simply informing the audience. These may be written on virtually any topic.
What is feature story or article?
200
A brief description of the contents of a news story printed in larger type, usually above the story.
What is headline.
300
Ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events.
What is objectivity?
300
A specific area assigned to a reporter for regular coverage.
What is beat?
300
Articles written with this increases interest in a story.
What is emotions?
300
A article that contains the writer's opinion.
What is editorial?
300
A person assigned to check the same news source for each issue of the paper (for example, art, music, theater, police administration).
What is beat reporter?
400
To put a speaker's words into the reporter's own words without changing the meaning or inserting opinion. Used to clarify lengthy, fuzzy or complicated thoughts. They do not have to be used in quotation marks.
What is paraphrase?
400
A vertical division of layout which aids in giving structure top a page
What is column?
400
A story that explains a unique or unusual situation.
What is oddity?
400
An article that focuses on what's going on in your neighborhood.
What is local news article?
400
A chief copy editor.
What is news editor?
500
The portion of a story which helps the reader move from one point to the next to help the story flow while adding information and explaining other items in the story.
What is transition?
500
A standard of conduct based on moral beliefs.
What is ethics?
500
A major struggle in the news; often references something negative
What is conflict?
500
An article that focuses on what's happening in the United States.
What is a national news article?
500
Method of composing photographs in which the field of vision is divided into thirds horizontally and vertically and the image placed at the intersection of any two lines.