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This type of article may be written in the inverted pyramid format.
What is a news article?
100

The essential photo composition guideline that is used to position images and landscapes.

What is the rule of thirds?

100

An overused or trite expression that is heavily avoided in newspaper. 

What is a cliché?

100
The most famous distinction awarded annually to the country's top journalists.

What is the Pulitzer prize?

100

The nut graph of a news story begins after this.

What is the lead?

200

The term for prevention of printing or broadcasting journalism by an organization or administrative entity.

What is censorship?

200

The position below the headline used for naming authors and contributors.

What is a byline?

200

Name of the photojournalist behind the Humans of New York series.

Who is Brandon Stanton?

200

The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects freedom of ______, the ______, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

What is "speech" and "press?"

200

Point of view that news and feature stories should be written from.

What is 3rd person?

300

The term "aperture" in photography.

What is "the size of the opening in the lens?"

300

List all of the months that are never abbreviated in AP style.

What are March, April, May, June and July?

300

Decade that the first TV news broadcast took place.

When are the 1940s?

300

Definition of "news peg."

What is "localizing a national story to add relevance for readers?"

300

Name given to the laws protecting reporters in 39 states from revealing sources.

What are shield laws?

400

The war Mary Beth Tinker was protesting (by wearing a black armband to school) that led to a subsequent Supreme Court case about First Amendment Rights.

What is the Vietnam War?

400

The only reason you should spell out the number 50 in AP style.

What is "if it's at the beginning of the sentence?"

400

The direction that photos should be pointed on a print spread.

What is toward the gutter (the center of a spread)?

400

These help hold points and quotes in a story together.

What are transitions?

400
This is the name of the resource that tells a writer how a publication treats names, titles, punctuation, capitalization, etc.
What is a stylebook?
500

The crime when a reporter includes something in a story (print, not broadcast) about a person that is untrue and could potentially ruin their reputation.

What is libel?

500

Another term for sensational or inflated news (hint: you learn this in APUSH).

What is yellow journalism?

500
Major U.S. newspaper that was arguably the most involved in the Watergate scandal.

What is The Washington Post?

500

American journalists who criticized the political and business practices of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Who are muckrakers?

500

"He said" and "she said" are examples of this.

What is attribution?

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