The Beginning of a news story, often consisting of just one sentence.
What is the lead?
100
The journalism of big headlines and splashy news programs depends on the underpinning of record keeping.
What is the record-keeping function?
100
Creating questions (brainstorming) to ask a person about them or someone else, to report.A situation in which a reporter asks a source questions and records the answer, which may be used later in a news story.
What is an interview?
100
Information about events, people, or issues that the public wants or needs to know
What is news
100
A concept in news style, research, and in police investigations that are regarded as basics in information-gathering
What is the five w's?
200
Information about an organization provided to the news media by that organization.
What is a news release?
200
The press provides the forum in which all sorts of ideas are presented; it becomes the marketplace of ideas
What is the marketplace function?
200
Creating questions (brainstorming) to ask a person about them or someone else, to report.
What is preparing for a interview?
200
Newsworthiness of an individual or organization
What is prominence?
300
Elements in nearly every newspaper.
What is the five W's and the H's?
300
A news organization doing its job properly will cover in detail the activities of government. This function is the foremost of the press's responsibilities.
What is the political function?
300
Eyes and ears on your topic (observing your topic).
What is paying attention?
300
Newness of the facts
What is timeliness?
400
A system of moral principles
What is ethics?
400
The comics, entertaining feature stories, and feature photos, with an audience made up of people of all ages
What is the entertainment function?
400
Study up and you will get it, ask about it, and get information about it
What is your topic?
400
Nearness of a given event to your place of publication.
What is proximity?
500
Members of a newspaper staff who meet regularly to discuss the newspaper's content and to plan future issues.
What is the editorial board?
500
In times long past, people got their news from their neighbors on a person-to-person basis. Passing along the news created a social situation in which people discussed their world. Today the mass media performs this function