AP Style
This is the full name of AP, as in AP Style. (Bonus +50: This is what the AP does?)
What is Associated Press? (Bonus: What is a news agency?)
A good lead should answer these six key questions.
What are who, what, when, where, why, and how?
This jubilant Israeli staff member was The Paw's first faculty advisor.
Who is Joshua Dermer?
This famous figure first coined the term muckraking. (Bonus +150: This is the reason why it is called "muckraking.")
Who is Theodore Roosevelt? (Bonus: "raking up" the muck of the Progressive Era corruption)
This word is the place on an article where the writer puts their name.
What is a Byline?
Spell out numbers in AP Style up to this digit.
What is nine?
Fix this attribution: “I love pizza,” she stated.
What is “I love pizza,” she said?
This prize, established in 1917, was created to honour the best of American journalism and is administered by Columbia University.
What is The Pulitzer Prize?
This is the type of story that is written about someone who has died.
What is an obituary?
In AP Style, titles are capitalized only when they come ______ a name.
What is before?
This type of voice is when the subject of the sentence is acted upon rather than doing the action.
What is passive voice?
This is the type (size) of newspaper that The Paw prints. (Bonus +100: This is the actual size of the type of newspaper)
What is a Tabloid page? (Bonus: What is 11X17)
This is the name of the group of journalists assigned to the White House in Washington, D.C., to cover the president of the United States, White House events, and news briefings.
What is the White House Press Corps?
This line at the bottom of an incomplete newspaper article redirects the reader to another page where the story is continued.
What is a jumpline?
In AP Style, you should always spell out this word except in headlines.
What is percent?
Headlines should usually be no more than how many words?
What is 5–10 words?
Within five, this is how many articles and multimedia pieces The Paw has published.
What are 100 articles?
2017’s “The Post” dramatized the attempts of that paper to publish the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, a set of documents that is commonly known by this name.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This musical term refers to the area a reporter is assigned to cover—be it a physical location (e.g., a city) or topic (e.g., politics).
What is a beat?
In AP Style, this is how you should write the title of a book
What is in quotation marks?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY (wager points— write your answer)!!
*Question on next slide*
This position at a newspaper USUALLY writes the headlines?
Who is the _______?
Who is Shira Merenstein?
This is what the FCC does. (Bonus +100: This is what the FCC stands for)
What is regulating interstate and international communications? (Bonus: What is the Federal Communications Commission?)
This is the name of the news writing style where the most important information is presented at the beginning of the article, followed by less critical details.
What is the inverted pyramid?