Chapter 6 Review
The lead used for a hard news story
What is: A Direct Lead
Define Attribution
A handbook for writers and editors
What is: A stylebook
Define In-Depth Reporting
What is: Digging beneath the surface of a story to provide a deeper understanding of a person, issue or event.
Define a Nut Graf
What is: The paragraph that tells exactly what the story is about.
Define a Sound Bite
What is: Recorded quotations used by radio and television stations, online publications and podcasts
The difference between a copy and a hard copy
What is: One appears on paper as opposed to electronically
The ideal point of view to use if you are an eyewitness.
What is: First Person
The top portion of an "Inverted Pyramid Structure"
What is: The lead
The last sentence read by the newscaster before a sound bite; the broadcast based form of attribution
What is: A Lead-In
Also known as the "politically correct language".
What is: Bias Free Language
An In-Depth Report that spans across multiple issues and/or updates.
What is: A Multi-Story Report
The point of view most articles/news stories are written in.
What is: Third person
The 4 types of quotations.
What are: direct, paraphrase, fragmentary, partial.
An example of a standard style used by most newspapers.
What is: Numbers are written as words up through nine while numbers 10 and over are written as numerals, courtesy titles (Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms.) always appear before names, the use of professional titles the first time a person is named, etc.
Associated with scandals like Watergate
What is: Investigative Reporting
The number of words in a sentence that allows standard levels of readability.
What are: 14 words
Correctly format the following:
Wasn’t it Shakespeare who wrote “to be or not to be, that is the question.”?
What is: Wasn’t it Shakespeare who wrote “to be or not to be, that is the question”?
(When using a quotation mark that relates to the sentence and not the quotation, place it at the end of the sentence )
Working With Words: The 9 Aspects of Editing (name 5)
What are: Check Spellings, Choose the Correct Word, Choose the Concise Word, Place Modifiers Carefully, Use Action Verbs, Use Active Sentences, Eliminate Redundancies, Rewrite Clichés, Use Journalistic Punctuation and Sentence Style
An easy way to start off longer stories.
What is: An anecdote