In a Nutshell
The element of the story that identifies the main idea and goes at the very top.
What is the headline?
Commas and periods should be placed inside or outside the quotation marks.
Inside
Exaggerated statements not intended to be false are considered to be ________.
What is misleading.
Did Joe Rogan say he'd rather visit Russia than Canada?
True.
Rogan truly said he'd rather go to Russia than Canada, and that he would not visit Canada in the future. He laughed after making the remark but provided no direct indication he was joking.
Name the state poised to become the second in the country to ban the long-standing practice of adding fluoride to public water systems.
Florida
The "hook" is the story that tells the reader what it is about.
What is the iead
Use the word –––––– in an attribution.
What is "said"
Getting the source to understand the veracity or trustworthiness of information in a story refers to the phrase ___________”?
Go upstream.
Eight immigrants who resided in the U.S. illegally slashed the tires of 51 semi trucks carrying relief supplies for victims of Hurricane Helene.
What is False.
This rumor misleadingly mixed elements from two completely different news stories.
Name the event that will begin on May 7 in Rome, marking the start of the search for the next pope.
What is a Conclave.
Who, What, When, Where, and How
What are the basic news elements of a news story.
A 2-year-old girl escaped injury when the mattress she was sitting on caught fire, engulfing the studio apartment in flames at Wheatshock Apartments.
You need to attribute information received from sources if it is not substantiated.
If you get lost reading a story, hit dead ends, or find yourself going down an increasingly confusing rabbit hole, you should do what?
What is "circle back."
Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency claims to have unearthed evidence to prove a longstanding conspiracy theory about Democrats orchestrating illegal voting by noncitizens on a scale large enough to swing national elections in their favor.
According to voting experts, Musk's claim appears false.
"The allegation is pretty straightforward — but DOGE’s data may not tell the whole story. Antonio Gracias, a private equity investor who is working with DOGE, said the DOGE team matched Social Security numbers given to noncitizens with work visas against voter registration rolls in four sample states, and found thousands of crossovers." Fact Check.org
Name the country marking its 80th anniversary ending "the Great Patriotic War" with the Third Reich. It also announced a 72-hour cease-fire in a recent war with its neighbor.
Russia
Explains the context of the story and supports information presented in the lead
What is a nut graph/
A 2-year-old girl playing with a lighter started the fire at the Wheatshocker Apartment, causing about $400,000 in damages, fire authorities said Thursday.
Attribution is needed here because the cause of the fire is accusatory, and the amount of damage is speculative.
Social commentary taken as news is considered ______. (Hint: The Onion).
What is satire
Did Barack Obama Say He Had Visited 57 (Islamic) States?
True. But Obama's statement was just a slip of the tongue and not a reference to 57 Islamic states.
The name of the festival in Vancouver, BC, where 11 people died after a car drove into a crowd of bystanders.
What is Lapu Lapu
A sentence running below the main headline is called a....?
What is deck head.
When a quote is two or more sentences, where do you place the attribution?
What is after the first sentence.
“The best way to succeed in college is to study and get involved,” said
Rocky Raven, academic counselor. “It’s supposed to be a stressful but fun experience.”
Stories mixing false statements with selected scientific facts refers to _______.
Example: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says the CDC has sent vaccines to Texas, but emphasizes using vitamin A to treat the disease — worrying infectious disease doctors (NPR).
What is pseudo-science.
President Donald Trump claimed the Lincoln Project used AI to make him look bad. Did the Lincoln Project use AI to alter video to make Trump look bad?
What is False.
What happened to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week.
Noem’s purse was stolen when a masked man walked into Capital Burger, a restaurant in D.C., last Sunday night.