history of American media
what is news
organizing staff
making the interview work
ethical and legal responsibilities
100
early American newspaper that aligned themselves with one political party
What is partisan press
100
news judgment
What is the knowledge and instinct a reporter calls on to determine whether an event is news
100
publisher
What is the person or body that owns runs or controls a publication sets broad guidelines and general policies but is rarely concerned with day to day operations.
100
primary source
What is for an interview the person who has the best and most reliable information about a topic.
100
credibility
What is The quality of being trusted
200
the concepts so named by Marshall McLuhan of the world as having become more tightly interrelated community because of simultaneous broadcast of significant events
What is global village
200
proximity
What is an element of news that refers to the geographic nearness of a given event to your place of publication or your readers
200
maestro
What is the concept of joint planning of pages or sections of publications by writers editors and designers also called the team or wed approach
200
off the record
What is an agreement reached before an interview begins and that the interviewer will not print the information that the interviewee provides
200
objectivity
What is the ability to make fair nuetral observations about people and events
300
wire service
What is a service that provides for a fee news from around the world too publications that subscribe to it
300
conflict
What is an element of news that of news that involves tension surprise and suspense and arises with any good news topic sports, war, elections
300
jump
What is to continue a story from one page to another
300
stock question
What is an all purpose question usable in any situation for example, what are your immediate and long term goals
300
slander
What is a damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or broadcast extemporaneously
400
penny press
What is newspapers from the 19th century that were filled with news and read by a mass audience included advertising and sold for a penny
400
localization
What is the writing of a regional, national, or even international story to bring out the local angle
400
open ended questions
What is a question that is structured to allow the interview subject latitude in answering
400
forum theory
What is the idea that once a forum is created the ideas expressed there cannot later be controlled
500
shock jock
What is a radio disk jockey who entertains his or her audience by saying outrageous, often vulgar or offensive things about people or situations
500
filter question
What is a question posed at the beginning of a survey designed to eliminate people who do not belong to the desired population
500
main bar
What is the main story of several stories about a topic on one page of a paper; the story that brings the issue into sharp focus
500
est question
What is an question built around a word ending biggest proudest loudest greatest and so forth.
500
fair comment
What is a libel defense that protects a journalist expressed opinion of public figures or reviews of books records and the like
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