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VO
What is the abbreviation for voiceover?
100
A news story that is 1 ½ minutes to 2 minutes in length.
What is a package?
100
A news story delivered by reporter on location.
What is a live shot?
100
The very first sentence of a story
What is a lead?
100
The conclusion of a story.
What is a close?
200
SOT
What is the abbreviation for sound bite (or sound on tape)?
200
TRT
What is the abbreviation for total running time?
200
News viewers may find interesting but don’t need to know.
What is soft news?
200
The approach or point of view used to tell a story
What is an angle?
200
The first line of a story and starts the story abruptly with the most important facts
What is a hard lead?
300
A story written by anchor or reporter that does not have video to support the story.
What is a reader?
300
A story that can be broadcasted at any time
What is an evergreen?
300
Media that a fair and unbiased presentation of facts.
What is mainstream media?
300
A specific area a reporter covers
What is a beat?
300
Information summarized by the reporter.
What is Little A comments?
400
News viewers need to have immediately
What is Hard News?
400
An organization of stories and sequence of a newscast in written.
What is a rundown?
400
A voiceover followed by a comment from an interviewee, all w/b-roll.
What is a VO-SOT?
400
Emotional statements made by the interviewer
What are Big A comments?
400
KISS
What is the abbreviation for keep it simple silly (or stupid)?
500
Media that is biased, expresses a particular point of view
What is non-mainstream media?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY A device that is used by a director to get a message to the news anchor through an earpiece.
What is an IFB?
500
Footage in a package with a reporter from scene of the story
What is a stand-up?
500
Crediting the source of information used in a story
What is attribution?
500
Using informal language
What is writing for the ear?
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