Newsworthiness
This element of newsworthiness refers to how recent an event is.
What is timeliness?
The first sentence of a news story containing key information.
What is the lead?
This voice is preferred in journalism: “The Governor gave a speech.”
What is active voice or present tense?
Supplemental video that supports the main narrative.
What is B-roll?
Civic engagement stories focus on this type of involvement.
What is community or government participation?
This term describes how close a story is to the audience.
What is proximity?
The 5 W’s and 1 H include
What Who, What, When, Where, Why, and how?
Reporters avoid these shortened word forms in broadcast writing.
What are abbreviations?
This shot frames a person from the chest or waist up.
What is a medium shot?
The idea that reporters should not accept gifts, money, or favors to influence coverage.
What is avoiding conflicts of interest?
This news element focuses on stories that emotionally connect with the audience.
What is human interest?
A reporter appearing on camera during a package.
What is a stand-up?
This type of spelling helps anchors pronounce difficult words.
What is phonetic spelling?
NAT sound refers to this type of background audio.
What is natural sound?
Failing to properly attribute information can lead to this serious ethical issue.
What is plagiarism?
This type of news package focuses on deeper storytelling rather than hard, breaking facts.
What is a feature package?
What is conversational short and to the point?
What is spelled out?
Shot variations help do this for viewers during a story.
What is maintain interest?
Journalists must check information and verify facts before publishing.
What is fact-checking?
This acronym DMA means what.
What is Designated Market Area which is a region or geographic area where the population receives the same television and radio content.
This type of information must be attributed to avoid appearing biased or misleading.
What are opinions?
Publishing false information that harms someone's reputation.
What is defamation?
A typical VO, VOSOT, and PKG has a total run time of how long.
What is 30 seconds, 45 seconds, and 1:30?
This doctrine states that journalists should remain neutral and avoid injecting personal opinions into stories.
What is objectivity?