Reporting Terms
News Writing
Interviewing Terms
Writing elements
Newspaper Format
100
A reporter's assigned area of responsibility, i.e. crime, health, education, etc.
What is beat?
100
The organization of a news story in which information is arranged from most important to least important.
What is inverted pyramid?
100
Person(s) or records from which a reporter gathers information.
What is source?
100
To put a quote in your own words to help clarify or condense.
What is paraphrase?
100
Display type placed over a story; must include action verb
What is headline?
200
An inclination that prevents objective reporting.
What is bias?
200
The element of a story that makes it newsworthy. Especially used in feature stories without immediately apparent hard news elements.
What is news hook?
200
A person who knows the most about a topic you're covering.
What is primary source?
200
Word or phrase that moves the reader from one thought to the next.
What is transition?
200
The line identifying the author of the story.
What is byline?
300
A story valued for more of its emotional impact than its importance.
What is human interest?
300
Timeliness, proximity, conflict and controversy, weight, prominence, novelty, impact, usefullness
What is newsworthy?
300
A sentence reflecting a source's exact words. Will be set in quotations marks.
What is direct quote?
300
Maintaining balance in a story by expressing ideas in similar grammatical forms.
What is parallelism?
300
The main text of a story.
What is body?
400
The focus of approach to a story.
What is angle?
400
Coverage of a timely news piece related to the actions of government, business, or school.
What is hard news?
400
Using a version of a speaker's words without quotation marks. Paraphrasing what someone said.
What is indirect quote?
400
who, what, where, when, why and how
What is 5ws and H?
400
The first paragraph of a newspaper story.
What is lead?
500
Reporting that is done in a way that the reporter's opinion is not known. Focusing on the facts.
What is objective reporting?
500
Story emphasizing the human or entertaining aspects of a situation.
What is feature story?
500
Identification of speaker (source). He said/she said.
What is attribution?
500
Determination of the truth of the material the reporter is given.
What is verification?
500
A paragraph that summarizes the key elements of a story. The "so what?" of the story.
What is nut graph?
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